Open tom-mohr opened 1 week ago
Hi @tom-mohr,
@samskivert has discontinued java development and this main repository has only minimal support. I have taken over this project (see here) and released a new major version 2.0.
My company uses getdown and there we generate both digest files as we only need the digest2.txt
file. I like the idea of preferring the digest2.txt
file, when available and use digest.txt
only as fallback. I created a new issue. Would you test a draft of a first snapshot version?
Greetings, Ben
Hi Ben,
I see, nice! It would be helpful if @samskivert would link your fork at the start of the old fork's README. I have now subscribed to the issue you created, so if there's a PR that references this, I could test it.
Greetings, Tom
Hi! I think this issue might be a common source of confusion for people using Getdown for the first time.
Currently,
java -classpath getdown-core-X.Y.jar com.threerings.getdown.tools.Digester myapp
generates two files:digest.txt
digest2.txt
Regarding this, the Quick Start documentation states:
However, this is not true. The Getdown Launcher actually does require both
digest.txt
anddigest2.txt
on the host. See this issue where another user ran into the same confusing error due to the misleading documentation. In that thread, @samskivert confirms this:If it's too much work to make the Getdown Launcher work with just the
digest2.txt
file, at least, the documentation should be changed to correctly state that bothdigest.txt
anddigest2.txt
are currently required on the host, i.e. that you can not omitdigest.txt
.Kind regards Tom