Contribtastic, the EVE-Central.com Uploader Version 2

Contribtastic is currently an alphaish quality product. Things might break, it may crash, and it could eat your dog (if you have one). However, it is suggested that all players upgrade to the latest version at their earliest convenience.

The latest version is 2.0-alpha5. 2.0-alpha6 is coming soon, and will finally fix some long standing glitches and unimplemented features (like login support ). Bug Yann to make it come out sooner.

For bug information, see: http://bugs.stackfoundry.org or read the development blog at http://www.yannramin.com/category/eve-central

All you need to do is install, and play EVE. There is no longer any requirement to “Export to File” in the EVE client.

The application comes with a Windows installer. Source code will compile and run on Linux and Mac OS X.

Downloads are available at http://dl.stackfoundry.org/contribtastic/

Make sure the “Using folder:” field mentions the “CachedMethodCalls” folder at the end of the path. On Windows 7/Vista, this is usually at:

c:\users\yourname\AppData\Local\CCP\EVE\c_program_files_(x86)_ccp_eve_tranquility\cache\MachoNet\87.237.38.200\247\CachedMethodCalls  (64-bit)
or
c:\users\yourname\AppData\Local\CCP\EVE\c_program_files_ccp_eve_tranquility\cache\MachoNet\87.237.38.200\247\CachedMethodCalls (32-bit)

On Windows XP, this is usually at:

C:\Documents and Settings\yourname\Local Settings\Application Data\CCP\EVE\c_program_files_ccp_eve_tranquility\cache\MachoNet\87.237.38.200\247\CachedMethodCalls

Contribtastic is one of two things:

• A complete re-write of the Uploader into a native application
• An adaptation of the wxPython uploader to use libevecache

This is the version with the most traction and currently on the master branch of http://gitorious.org/contribtastic/

The build rules are a bit wonky due to Scons have difficulty with swig under Windows (specifically Windows 7). There is some hand-building finesse.

Expect it to ship with Python 2.6 as the runtime.

Downloads are available at http://dl.stackfoundry.org/contribtastic/

http://gitorious.org/contribtastic/ =D

Maybe it would be good to provide some information what Contribtastic does and how. Or, if this information is already out there, somwhere, please put a link to it. Reporting bugs of a software is nice, but installing a software without some information what it does is stupid. ~~~~