Oolite Bulletins

Cholmondely wrote: ↑Tue Apr 15, 2025 10:35 pm

Redspear wrote: ↑Tue Apr 15, 2025 8:55 pm

Royal Vetititian (pre communist reference presumably)

Thumbs up to this one! WB will love it too!

Viking Crooses? Sounds crass.
Voorgin Vooyages?
Cloob Med?

Onrira-Xexedi Line?
Tianvean Travels?

Fred Oolsen?

I've just used a hacky little python redirect and learned three things. This all works fine on the Mac version. Putting a slash at the end of the URL in the oolite binary doesn't hurt anything. Redirecting to the https variant of the site works fine. From that, I am going to assume the ideal extra U...

Would a rebuild of the windows variant be backwards compatible? Could the fix be more easily achieved by re-doing the last step (constructing the installer)? Yes, it is totally possible to rebuild the installer corresponding to the exact github revision used to generate the 1.90 release. I'm inferr...

The windoze version is a self-extracting installer, and may prove a tad harder to edit. Might be easier to run a re-build for that, unless anyone here knows how to re-jig such a file? I don't think you can jig an NSIS installer. It uses CRCs for self-verifying its integrity when it runs. Even a one...

Could you use a URL shortening service (like Tiny URL) to shorten it? That way, nothing else needs to be created. Rather than adding yet another dependency I'd involve timer to test whether https://oolite.space/ is feasible. The string oxz-index-url is looked up in the configuration (GnuStepDefault...

If the domain oolite.org expires on the 9th May, I might snap it up to catch, log and redirect to oolite.space. It'd not be expensive. Does anyone know who/why is holding it? The WhoIs info points at a French lady. Redirecting old bb links is something only the exalted one can do. It ought not take ...

Could we create a URL that is the same length. Thoughts/progress. https://addons.oolite.space/api/1.0/overview/ exists.. Can/should/could Oolite use https for the expansion manager? Leaving out the last two chars of the URL works, at least for the Mac version. I say works.. obviously the URL is non...

phkb wrote: ↑Tue Apr 01, 2025 2:33 pm

Could we create a URL that is the same length (or less than) as the previous one, but which points to the new location? That *might* allow the binaries to be edited.

Cunning! I'll see if editing to same num chars can work after tea.

Bump! Is there really no way to update the URL for the Expansions Manager in the three 1.90 downloads? It is over two years now since Timer created oolite.org How many borked versions of 1.90 have been downloaded in those two years? How many of those downloads ended up getting abandoned because we ...

I'd understood that it was GitHub which made it impossible to simply update the broken url in the Oolite v.1.90 Expansions Manager Not impossible, but far from simple. I suppose it'd be easiest as a one-off, to build at home, then manually re-upload them. I'll have a crack at doing that for at leas...

Fantastic work C.B.

Almost self-documenting. That deserves a wiki page (DIY HUD), surely?

Was moving to GitHub something which is now proving to be a mistake (with their now relentless drive to update everything which moves)? I agree with a_c. The apparent 'relentless drive' is not so bad really. They tend to keep runners available until their proper end of life. So the Ubuntu 20.04 git...

Any input resulting in a proper fix would be much appreciated. I bounced off this a little on my 'linux library bundle fix' fork, and mostly ignored it, as it was not my main focus. Will have a look, maybe later today as github are due to deprecate an Ubuntu release, and I hope to make a fork of la...

Not so far-fetched; my little boxen, that runs Oolite at a blistering 7 FPS, is going to transmute into e-waste in October, if Microsoft's propaganda is to be believed. (Since I can't update it to Windows 11, I've wondered if some form of Linux intervention might be appropriate.) Welcome to the lig...

This morning, I have opened up the Chromebook - all seems stable… This may still prove handy if you need to powerwash, or for anyone wanting to do a minimal container install on ChromeOS. After the first time round, you should be able to simply run Oolite from the normal ChromeOS app menu. To enabl...