GRFCodec 6.0.3

[wallyweb]

@frosch: Thank you for the fix.
@Alberth: Thank you for the information.
I'll check again in the morning then.

[Rubidium]

Today GRFCodec 6.0.2 was released. This is a minor maintenance release with NFORenum validation data updates and the revert of an optimisation that was valid according to the GRF specifications. However, the specifications were incorrect.

[wallyweb]

Latest release in grfcodec is 6.0.2, released on 2012-09-21 19:56 UTC.

I don't think this affects the file but I thought i should ask just in case.

[Rubidium]

Today GRFCodec 6.0.3 was released. This is a minor maintenance release with NFORenum validation data updates and a few minor fixes to GRFCodec decoding of container v2 included sprites and reading of interlaced PNG files.

[tuesday]

GrfCodec: Are win32-compiled binaries of grfdiff and grfmerge available for download anywhere?

- I wiped the old versions off - I assumed they were in the 6.0.3 win32 binaries archive by default.
- I gave up compiling them.

Thanks

tuesday

[PikkaBird]

I assumed they were in the 6.0.3 win32 binaries archive by default.

I just redownloaded to check, and they are. Are you downloading from http://www.openttd.org/en/download-grfcodec/6.0.3 ?

[tuesday]

I see .. I got it from http://www.openttd.org/en/download-grfcodec (without the 6.0.3) saying

"Latest release in grfcodec is 6.0.4, released on 2013-07-15 19:04 UTC."

The filename is grfcodec-6.0.4-windows-win32.zip, filesize is 1.320.128, md5 does match. I found this release thread here and assumed the current version would be 6.0.3, but, in fact, it appears to be 6.0.4, the two programs missing.

The statement for 6.0.3:

"This is an archived release of grfcodec 6.0.3, released on 2013-07-15 19:11 UTC."

however, its release date is 7 minutes later and 200k more. Concurrent releases?

thanks

tuesday

[planetmaker]

The release info there seems wrong. grfcodec 6.0.4 is much newer, it's released 31 March 2014.

[frosch]

If you want a working grfdiff and grfmerge you have to use a way older version of grfcodec (<= version 5 or something). I recently deleted those tools from the repository, since they were broken for like 3 (?) years, and there has been no usecase for them for 11 years. (which makes me wonder why you would want to use them)

[tuesday]

Maintenance of a personal NewGrf - modify some sprites in ttr1g (multiple versions for railtypes) and openttd, then extract the modified sprites. I decided now to automatize it. So I thought I need grfdiff.

Are 6.0.3 grfdiff and grfmerge functional?

tuesday

[PikkaBird]

I suspect it would be less trouble to turn it into a proper newgrf...

[planetmaker]

It probably would also greatly reduce the required maintenance work. Also you might want to learn about static NewGRFs (sorry no better URL).

[tuesday]

Guys, the 'properness' of my grf is not the question, as long as it is a valid grf accepted by the latest revisions of the tools, the .nforenum linter included. The other thing is a question of my workflow which is nothing you have to care about.

The question is that grfdiff and grfmerge vanished silently, someone thinks it was a release 5.x, but in 6.0.3 they are still there, can I use these, or do they have an undetermined status?

Regards

tuesday

[Eddi]

the versions included in 6.0.3 do not work. which is why they were removed.

[Muzzly]

Could someone check following issue https://dev.openttdcoop.org/issues/7063, please.

[Alberth]

Seems to work fine at my 64 bit Linux system. It needs about 1.1GB to run, it seems.

Edit: Please note the license of that NewGRF, you are not allowed to change it without permission.