Oolite Bulletins

The inevitable has happened and a new version of Oolite has caught up with the Wiki OXP table. The Compatibility column is now out of date. There has already been much debate about this, and many OXP authors have already given info regarding their work on the BB.
The trouble is this info is scattered around, and no one has been acting on it.
Time to send in the Cavalry, namely Fatleaf and Myself.
Fatleaf has kindly offered to test every OXP for compatibility and report back to me. I can then update the Wiki.
I have amended the Wiki table text describing the function of the 'C' column to reflect its out-of-date status.
I know many Commanders have already either updated their OXPs, and that many were already compatible, and that much of this information is already here on the BB. However, although I will go through the BB, I could easily overlook some, so I would be very grateful if commanders could either post the details here on THIS thread with confirmation of their 1.75 compatible OXPs, or PM me with the details - we only really need the OXP name as it appears on the table.
This will speed-up the whole process, and potentially save Fatleaf a great deal of work.
Cheers,
Smivs

1.75 is still a Beta release isn't it?

I think technically they are all Betas until NMSR (the next 'stable' release).

Thanks, Thargoid.

Okti wrote:

1.75 is still a Beta release isn't it?

Yes, but that means the opposite of what you're thinking. It's a beta release, because we're heading towards the next stable. Every release from 1.67 till 1.74.2 was a test release, which is less than a beta. Think alpha.

Overall this just means that the beta status of 1.75 is immaterial to the Wiki OXP table, just like the not-even-beta status of 1.74.2 was immaterial.

Beta also means that anything compatible with 1.75 will be automatically compatible with 1.76, a.k.a. Stable!

Kaks wrote:

Beta also means that anything compatible with 1.75 will be automatically compatible with 1.76, a.k.a. Stable!

Unless, of course, it depends on bugs. Like almost everything that needs updating between 1.74 and 1.75. :-)

I was going to post something on this, suggesting we wait for 1.76 as it is just round the corner, then I realised I had misread Ahruman's post about 1.75 - I see now there will be a series of 1.75 releases before 1.76.

Thanks to Fatleaf and Smivs for getting the 1.75 table update process in motion and to OXP authors for their help with this process. If you chaps need any assistance, let me know.

mcarans wrote:

Thanks to Fatleaf and Smivs for getting the 1.75 table update process in motion and to OXP authors for their help with this process.

Right On Commanders.

Some progress can now be reported.
I have cleared all the 'Y's from the Compatibility column and started replacing them as OXPs are checked/confirmed as working with v1.75.
There is still a long way to go, and Fatleaf is steadily working through the OXPs, but this will take some time.
If anyone else is using v1.75 and can confirm that any OXPs are OK, please get in touch.
I would ask again, though, that authors who know their OXPs are OK please either post here or PM me as this will make the job much easier.
Also I have moved the 'Ferdepai' to the 'OXPs with problems' section as Fatleaf found the following log entry

Ferdepai: Will not load: [ai.load.failed.unknownAI]: Can't switch AI for <ShipEntity 0xac6b2f0>{"Fer-de-Lance"} to "zonkedAI.plist" - could not load file.

so it clearly is not working as intended, although this is not a compatibility issue.

It seems two ships within ferdepai.oxp were intended to have a custom AI (named "zonkedAI"). However, this AI is not included in the OXP, and maybe doesn't exist at all.

Effectively this means that these ships will have the ordinary pirate AI, which will work normally. But of course, this may not be what johnsmith intended.

While you're here could you be so kind as to enlighten me as to the status/compatibility of your OXPs, please?

I'm in the process of re-doing my AddOns folder and re-downloading a bunch of OXPs at the moment, some of which I didn't even know had been updated - I've got as far as F!

Once I'm done with that I can get back to flying, and I'll keep an eye on my log files; if everything seems okay I can post the contents giving you a list of a number of oxps and version numbers that appear to work!

That'll be great....thanks mauiby!