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Friday, 31 July 2009

Switch and Bail

Posted on 11:13 by Unknown
I will be out of the office next week - it's August, time to head for the mountains...no cell coverage, no internet, no computers, no electricity...no mountains actually. (This is upstate New York...mountainous to someone from Boston but not mountains compared to what Sergio normally deals with.)

As you know, LR often shows stellar judgement in managing release risk. So in true X-Plane tradition, I swapped in the new revamped website last night, just in time to head for the hills and avoid the fall-out.

Here's the short version:
  • I am wicked stupid.
  • When I did the swap last night, I screwed up the files that manage the auto-update functionality, hosing the updater.
  • I fixed these files this afternoon, once the message got back to me.
So if you saw weird stuff happen with the updater or the sim last night, please try again - it should be fixed. If it is still broken, please send an email to Austin and myself - one of us will hopefully be around.

I have also reskinned scenery.x-plane.com and wiki.x-plane.com to match the new site. If you find artifacts in those two sub-sites, please email me - I'll fix it as soon as I can. The wiki site is a MediaWiki skin - it was pretty tricky to get it working, so it may be a bit before I work all the kinks out.
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