Oolite Bulletins

With the nightly build server having been down for over a week now and a couple of annoying (annoying to me anyhow) bugs having been fixed in the meantime in the trunk source code it got me to wondering what people generally play Oolite on, given that there have only been a couple of peeps noting that the server is down.

I have been an nightly build user who regularly updates for some time, but with the server going down have started compiling my own build from the source code and will probably carry on doing that having realised just how easy it is (and as it gives the opportunity to test tweaks to the source code and learn Obj C).

Anyhow answers on a postpoll card.

Capt. Murphy wrote:

but with the server going down have started compiling my own build from the source code and will probably carry on doing that having realised just how easy it is.

I only can speak for the mac port, but there things have even become very easy last year. In the past you needed to download some externally libraries and install it in your mac to be able to compile Oolite, but now the whole build process takes that away from you and downloads and installs them for you, when needed.

Just one remark about the nightlies (and self compiling). Because they change on almost daily basis, there is no guarantee that no serious bugs went into a certain revision. Introducing bugs was mainly happening when adding new features. Now that we have a feature freeze since 1.75, the changes are mainly fixes and every new update improves stuff and new bugs are rare. So until 1.76 is released, I think it is also safe for normal users to download the nightlies. That gives the devs a good chance to see if all bugs are really sorted out for all kind of hardware setup.

After 1.76 it becomes dangerous again to use nightlies for normal playing.

Any news on when we can expect v1.76?

Generally use the latest Trunk release, but if testing things then a latest debug build and the latest stable release on Win XP and Linux.

Ironfist

I use the current official test release because it's in the Arch Linux repository

Ignatius881 wrote:

I use the current official test release because it's in the Arch Linux repository

I can't speak for the Arch repo, but most linux repos only have the last stable release which is v1.65. The current release is v1.75.3.
Good general advice to all Commanders is to check you really have got the latest version, as 1.65 is very old and 'out of date' now, and almost none of the current OXPs will work with it. 1.75.3 is actually more reliable than the last 'stable' and has numerous new features which are well worth having.