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Grelminar · Creator of Asss Joined: Feb 26 2003 Posts: 378 Offline

I finally made a new release. Available here. I hope nothing's broken, but I didn't test it that thoroughly. Post comments here.

Dr Brain · Posted: Sat Jan 08, 2005 9:45 pm Post subject:

Changelog looks good.

Might I suggest (if you haven't already) removing the optional-ness of Python in the setup documentation?
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CypherJF · Posted: Sat Jan 08, 2005 10:11 pm Post subject:

Yey
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Smong · Posted: Sun Jan 09, 2005 1:04 pm Post subject:

arenas/scf/arena.conf needs fixing.

Grelminar · Creator of Asss Joined: Feb 26 2003 Posts: 378 Offline

Nice catch on the defaultarena line.

It reloads only modified files, which would be automatically reloaded every 15 seconds anyway. I could possibly add a flag to make it force-reload all open files, or only one specific file. Is it only groupdef.conf that you have a problem with?

Oops, exec.py is missing. Sorry about that. For now, you can get it at http://sscx.net/asss/exec.py.

Dr Brain · Posted: Sun Jan 09, 2005 3:20 pm Post subject:

If it's not simple to get it to reload all of the #included files, then can you at least make a ?touch <file>? That would solve the difficulty.

Smong · Posted: Sun Jan 09, 2005 5:59 pm Post subject:

I sometimes put custom module settings in their own file and #include it, so it's not just groupdef.conf. Maybe limit it to the arena the command was executed in if reloading the conf's on all active arenas will lag the server.

ExplodyThingy · Posted: Sun Jan 09, 2005 6:01 pm Post subject:

or if youre feeling ambitious, all of the above using flags.
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Chambahs · Guest Offline

ran into this problem, all i did was rename the zone, and i left everything else alone after i downloaded it and i got these messages in the exe....

starting asss...
asss 1.3.5 built at Jan 8 2005 17:01:56
Loading modules...
I <cmod> loading C module 'deadlock' from 'internal'
I <cmod> loading C module 'prng' from 'internal'
I <cmod> loading C module 'logman' from 'internal'
'import site' failed; use -v for traceback
Traceback <most recent call last>:
File "<string>", line 1, in ?
ImportError: No module named os
ImportError: No module named copy_reg
ImportError: No module named exec
Unrecoverable error <5>: Error in loading module '<py exec'

and then right after that, it immediatly closes, i had to take a screenshot at the right time to see what it said lol...any suggestions?

Dr Brain · Posted: Tue Jan 11, 2005 10:06 pm Post subject:

Looks like python isn't set up properly. Try either setting it up or removing all of the python entries from modules.conf.

Chambahs · Guest Offline

worked, thanks for the help..

Grelminar · Creator of Asss Joined: Feb 26 2003 Posts: 378 Offline

I overhauled ?reloadconf so that it can do basically everything that you all want. Specifically, "?reloadconf groupdef" will force a reload of groupdef.conf (and any other file that has "groupdef" in its name).

Regarding python init errors: Try downloading python 2.3.4 from python.org and installing it (the location doesn't matter). Python modules that use stuff from the python standard library (like the new exec.py) will need to have a real installation of python somewhere on the system. Most of them (hopefully) won't need it, though.