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zannu

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One suggestion on version number
« on: September 08, 2022, 03:03:45 pm »
Hi just a little suggestion, it's possible to put a post pinned in the first line with the last Cuatl version so every people can easy verified if he has the last version?
Areosoft forum just doing that.
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Re: One suggestion on version number
« Reply #1 on: September 08, 2022, 03:53:20 pm »
+1  I like that idea too.

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Re: One suggestion on version number
« Reply #2 on: September 08, 2022, 05:28:14 pm »
Hi just a little suggestion, it's possible to put a post pinned in the first line with the last Cuatl version so every people can easy verified if he has the last version? Areosoft forum just doing that.

You might have a point, if the whole GSX code ran completely in the Couatl .exe. However, Couatl .exe is just a Python interpreter, the real logic and code in GSX is the large collection of the various Python scripts ( with a .PYE extension ), and every single of one them might change the program behavior in ways much more extensive that what you might gather from looking "just" at the Couatl .exe version.

The program can be updated, quite significantly, without any change on the Couatl .exe, and the opposite it true, sometimes none of the Python scripts change, only the .exe does.

Without even going into the possibly significant changes to the program caused by all the data-driven stuff like vehicle choice rules, vehicles usage restrictions and allowed airplane types, all the animations specifications, all events that happens during these animation, which are spread around hundreds of different SIM.CFG files of the objects.

Any change of any of these file can have a significant effect on the overall result of what GSX does, that's why I keep repeating giving you a "version number" of something, it's just something that might feel you good, but it's not reliable, unless we check each and every file to be the last version, which is the only thing that matters.