Recent patch?

[Nanwedar]

hello i was just wondering is it ok to patch live to the current release (11/05/03) or will it affect the useage of eqmu?

p.s i'm sorry if this was posted somewhere else and i missed it or whatnot i didn't see anything about it

[arkaria]

Hmmm seems there was a patch today. Who knew

He is asking about today's new patch ... I don't think there are lots of threads about this, in fact I don't think I have seen one, but I may have overlooked it.

[devn00b]

New patch broke EQEMU, seems to be an easy fix so far and we are working hard on getting it fixed

[arkaria]

Idea...

Maybe I'm wrong but here goes:

Would it not be faster to put a freeze on client patchs (starting with this patch say) and get the server running for this client version? Then work on keeping up with minor patchs.

[devn00b]

It would be, and image and myself have suggested it. But atm its just not that way

[arkaria]

Do the other Devs not agree that this is a good idea? Or just havn't had the time to implement it?

[a_Guest03]

arkaria, that's a brilliant idea. It gets done all the time. Unfortunately, many people don't follow the news and don't hold off on their patches, and 50 newbies come in here bitching about how it doesn't work with live.

Most of the time, they fix the minor patches, in which minor things are busted. They only freeze for a long time when encryption changes to something that nobody can figure out, or when packetstructures change dramatically.

Based on previous work that /dev/noob and image have done, it won't be long in the sense of months, but may be as long as weeks.

[Edgar1898]

only a few changes have been made, mainly opcode changes (ALL of them were changed heh). Its been fixed tho

[a_Guest03]

Sorry I forgot to include you, Lethal. I have trouble telling which devs are active and which are mostly afk.

[Edgar1898]

NP, I'm usually not one that needs attention...usually :P

The fixes will be pushed to cvs whenever TC gets a chance to, last time I checked stuff into the anonymous cvs, I messed up his scripts heh

[arkaria]

So you figure it's worth it to worry about small patchs when some major stuff is not working yet?

I would have thought it would be more productive to ignore small patchs and just get averything working.

I know alot of people seem to patch when they shouldn't (that's their problem) but I would think that it would be easier for the Devs to just work with one client version until everything is pretty much working then start adding support for new patchs.

[Edgar1898]

OK lets hit these points one at a time:

1. You have no idea what your talking about. Warez is ILLEGAL. Can you repeat that after me? I-L-L-E-G-A-L. The goal of this project is to make an everquest server that has as many features as possible, if we didnt stay current how are we supposed to get packet logs to fix stuff? How are we supposed to catch up again when we are 12 patches behind? Who is going to do it? You? No, I didnt think so....

2. You have no right to tell me or any other dev how they should spend their free time. You didnt specifically say that, but you alluded to it by your sarcastic comments.

3. What *MAJOR STUFF* are you talking about?!? There is nothing major that doesnt work.

4. We owe you NOTHING. We dont work for you, you should be thankful we do anything at all. You can come and go as you please, nothing is stopping you. You dont like it? Tough, there is the door.

I might take a couple months off and let the emu sit unfinished just to spite you and your rude ass.

[kathgar]

Aside from the issues previously stated, going to a frozen version to live would be ever more difficult with every patch. Rewriting a large portion of your codebase is never fun.

[DeletedUser]

Can't we all just get along. :cry: :cry: :cry: