Oolite Bulletins

phkb wrote: ↑Sat Jan 31, 2026 3:10 am

Here's a version I did for Windows:

Nice! Did you notice the next script on my post, which unzips, fixes, and re-zips all the OXZs in a directory?

Would it be possible/practical to have an option to compress the save files?

Mine are mostly 2M+. I'm in the habit of saving as new files regularly, especially when troubleshooting.

zstd squishes them to ~10%

Tsoj... I can't see any of these. All I can see is "Content is not viewable in your region". Imgur simply blocked the UK rather than attempt to comply with the Online Safety Act. As of Sep 30th 2025, any embedded imgur piccies will not be visible in the UK, including all those already in ...

I think we should keep in mind that while we want to make things as easy as possible for existing users to keep existing folder layouts, with multiple build types like MSIX, NSIS, flatpak, appimage, source and with new players who may existing layouts confusing or inconvenient, we probably need to ...

At the moment the appimage just runs the oolte executable directly. It could be changed to do something else internally like run a script that launches oolite. To avoid confusion I'll mention here that an AppImage has its own internal filesystem which uses squashfs. You can see the folder structure...

Please see if this appimage works with symlinks if you have time: https://github.com/mcarans/oolite/actions/runs/20450167242/artifacts/4949452794. It uses ARGV0. I'm investigating various appimage related tools that might cover some of the suggestions you've made. That works, as long as the symlink...

"ARGV0 provides information how the AppImage was called. When you call an AppImage through a symlink for instance, you can get the path to this symlink through ARGV0, while APPIMAGE would contain the absolute path to the file behind that symlink." That sounds like it could solve the probl...

I didn't have an AddOns folder in ~Downloads. I understand that it looks for one in the appimage's $pwd. It does not look in what was the legacy executable's normal $pwd, which in effect is a legacy location for a lot of users who formerly used the self-installer to $HOME. Does it work if you put t...

So that all makes sense. I tried: cd ~/GNUstep/Applications/Oolite ln -s ~/Downloads/Oolite_test_1.91.0.7728-25~19-7857806-x86_64.AppImage oolite-appimage Running ./oolite-appimage finds the old unmanaged OXP's, because $pwd is ~/GNUstep/Applications/Oolite However, executed from another directory ...

So that all makes sense. I tried: cd ~/GNUstep/Applications/Oolite ln -s ~/Downloads/Oolite_test_1.91.0.7728-25~19-7857806-x86_64.AppImage oolite-appimage Running ./oolite-appimage finds the old unmanaged OXP's, because $pwd is ~/GNUstep/Applications/Oolite However, executed from another directory (...

I see nothing in the existing code for ~/GNUstep/Applications/Oolite/AddOns/ although it would be simple to add it. However, since there's already ~/.Oolite/AddOns and there will be <Folder where AppImage is>/AddOns, then I'm not sure there's a need to add another folder to the list. ~/GNUstep/Appl...

I have addons in:

~/GNUstep/Library/ApplicationSupport/Oolite/ManagedAddOns
and my custom ones are in:
~/GNUstep/Applications/Oolite/AddOns

The latter, custom OXP's folder, is not sought by the appimage.

[...] Here is a download link if you want to test: https://www.filemail.com/d/rqboegjegmaysyy. If you do, please let me know what version of Linux you use. Sigh (expected): $ ./Oolite_1.91.0.7781-251216-47a0cfb-x86_64.AppImage ./Oolite_1.91.0.7781-251216-47a0cfb-x86_64.AppImage: /lib64/libc.so.6: v...

I appreciate your focus. MrFlibble, I have a hard time following the commits in your fork and feel you tried to do to much. I did have a brief skim through the file diffs between my fork and master yesterday.. Much easier to see what's happening than looking at the plethora of commits I did in order...

While looking at targets supported by Make I noticed several are labelled as posix-* . There were also mentions of oolite "known to be running on BSDs" Apple OS X is often said to be posix compliant with the BSD styles. The binaries on the oolite github releases page are labeled as linux-...