No. I really did search. And having read your posts, I searched again and still can't find the info I need mentioned. Among other things, I searched for "3.014" "3.14" and even "314" in the Mac OS X and Server forums with no luck finding a suitable mirror. Of course if you have enough spare time to read the forums continuously, maybe you might find it mentioned in a post that didn't have the obvious keywords or just ones I didn't think of. Without the keywords, you might appreciate that there is a formidable volume of posts to work through.

Thanks Jos for your helpful reply. The actual links on the Planeshift download page still say 0.3.013 (and actually delivered 0.3.013 last time I tried them), so I had no idea that one of them actually links to the new version instead.

It would be great if something about that could be put in the stickies until all the servers are updated.

I haven\'t ever used the Windows version of Planeshift, as I don\'t think they\'d appreciate me playing it at work So I admit I can\'t compare the two properly, and everything I have to say should be taken with that big grain of salt in mind.

From what I\'ve read and experienced and learnt from talking to friends using Windows, however, I\'d say that Mac development is seriously slower. Some of this isn\'t directly the fault of Planeshift, but from the underlying CrystalSpace code... patches of which can take quite some time to filter down to Planeshift.

So far, I\'ve also found it very uncommon for a Mac new release to be out at the same time as the PC one... meaning you can be \"locked out\" while you wait days or weeks for it. And a number of ugly Mac bugs still seem to remain unfixed in the latest release (in the short time I played it before the updater wrecked it). But then, perhaps the Windows bugs are just as ugly.

If you truly want to judge it, I\'d suggest you read through the bugs reported in this forum, whether you think you can deal with them, and how quickly they\'re fixed.

Having said that, I wouldn\'t stake your switch just on one game... Macs are worth the switch, regardless! And perhaps the point is moot now that they\'ve worked out how to dual boot Windows on the new Intel Macs... you could always keep Windows around just for this game

All web browsers I tested (Safari, Firefox, IE and Lynx) prematurely terminate the download from that mirror. The download speed doesn\'t decrease before it terminates, so it\'s not like a connection is dropping out... It\'s just zipping along and suddenly it says it\'s finished.

I also looked through the mirror and tried to download some other large files (png as well as zip). They also terminated prematurely, so it\'s not just that one file, nor is it just zip files.

Unfortunately none of the browsers I tested give any further diagnostic info as to why this happens. Nor does Updater.jar in diagnostic mode. psmirror.org doesn\'t seem to be an ftp server, so I can\'t even test it using an ftp client.
So unless you know some way of building download diagnostics into Updater.jar, I\'m stumped
Do you know what http server or file sharing software they\'re using on that site? I can\'t even see a reference to that. At least if I knew that, I could search for similar issues.

Cheers

OK, I found the repository.zip file. The broken one downloaded from mirror 3 is consistently 195467 bytes (I downloaded it multiple times to check). In contrast, the functioning respository from mirror 2 is 617824 bytes.

I also analysed the bad repository, although the analysis is rather redundant, given the obvious truncation of the file:

$ zip -T repository.zip
zip warning: missing end signature--probably not a zip file (did you
zip warning: remember to use binary mode when you transferred it?)
zip error: Zip file structure invalid (repository.zip)
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$ unzip -v repository.zip
Archive:  repository.zip
  End-of-central-directory signature not found.  Either this file is not
  a zipfile, or it constitutes one disk of a multi-part archive.  In the
  latter case the central directory and zipfile comment will be found on
  the last disk(s) of this archive.
unzip:  cannot find zipfile directory in one of repository.zip or
        repository.zip.zip, and cannot find repository.zip.ZIP, period.
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$ zip -F repository.zip
zip: reading repository.xml
zip warning: repository.zip would be truncated.
Retry with option -qF to truncate, with -FF to attempt full recovery

Assuming that updaterconfig.xml is the correct file, the parameters for mirror 3 are:

Just thought I should add that, in case your settings are different.


BTW, would it be a hassle to wrap your JAR file as an application bundle before distribution? It seems that Jar Bundler does most of the work for you, and it\'d save a lot of troubles at the user end (version changing, etc.), and make the application a lot more Mac-like. The core .jar file would still be pure Java, and therefore remain cross-platform, it\'s just the wrapper that\'s Mac-specific.

I\'m actually not sure how to run Updater.jar from the command line any more.

It seems that the java command line interpreter still assumes Java 1.4.2 by default, regardless of what version was set by the Java Preferences utility. I can\'t find an Apple document on how to correct that.

What did you mean about Chaos\'s updater not working? Is it actually running, but the updated Planeshift still fails to run afterwards? Or is Updater.jar failing to run entirely?

If Updater.jar runs, which mirror does it say it\'s using for the update?

If it won\'t run, which version of OS X do you have, and which of the two updaters did you download? You need the old one for 10.3.9 or below. For 10.4, you need the new one, but also need to set your default Java version to J2SE 5.0

A couple of questions...
How recently did you download the Java updater? And did you follow instruction 2a in \"READ BEFORE POSTING: A Guide to Running Planeshift on Mac OS X\" to set your Java version to J2SE 5.0?

What you describe is where I was at a week ago, before the new updater came out, so it really sounds to me like you need to download the new updater.

One other thing it could be, however...
When the updater is running, make sure it\'s using mirror 2 or mirror 4 (it\'ll tell you at the start of the update run). If it\'s using mirrors 1 or 3, cancel and restart. The reason is that mirror 1 has (or at least had) out of date files, and mirror 3 seems (seemed) to be completely corrupt. So your copy of Planeshift wouldn\'t run if it used one of them. If they\'ve since fixed this, I haven\'t heard, so best to avoid those other mirrors until word is given that they\'re safe.