yet another auto-updater (for Windows)

[Malurth]

GitHub - Malurth/KoLMafia-Updater: A simple tool to automatically update + launch KoLMafia.

A simple tool to automatically update + launch KoLMafia. - GitHub - Malurth/KoLMafia-Updater: A simple tool to automatically update + launch KoLMafia.

github.com

my old one someone else made stopped working, so I made a new one

it was only after making a new one did I realize there are already a lot of new ones

oh well, here's another one for you I guess

 

[MCroft]

Windows only (at this time), before anyone asks.

 

[chapu]

I get "a JNI error occurred"... any ideas? Sorry for being a noob

 

[fewyn]

I get "a JNI error occurred"... any ideas? Sorry for being a noob

Uninstall your current version of JAVA and get 17 from https://adoptium.net/index.html. The version from Java.com/Oracle is outdated.

 

[fronobulax]

The version from Java.com/Oracle is outdated.

Oracle's latest/updated version is https://www.oracle.com/java/technologies/downloads/

 

[fewyn]

Oracle's latest/updated version is https://www.oracle.com/java/technologies/downloads/

Is that new?

 

[Veracity]

Oracle's latest/updated version is https://www.oracle.com/java/technologies/downloads/

Those are all Linux

 

[MCroft]

Those are all Linux

There's an OS selector on that page now, but I suspect many of us are wary of Oracle's commitment to it. I also really hate the "we're providing an unversioned link so you don't know for sure if you even need an update" way of doing things.

So it's there, but I'm not willing to recommend it.

 

[Veracity]

Ah, yes. The Mac version is 17.0.1.
I agree with your reservtions.

 

[fronobulax]

Oracle has consistently maintained updates although you definitely need to be motivated enough to look for them.

Using Oracle is a habit from the days when the systems I was paid to support were only allowed to install an Oracle distributed version of Java.

There are stories about bugs that get fixed by Oracle before adoptium and edge cases where certain integrations are easier with one over the other. None of those anecdotes seem to be particularly relevant to KoLmafia.

I made the comment mostly to point out that Java.com has not been the best source for Oracle updates for many years.

 

[VladYvhuce]

Oracle has consistently maintained updates although you definitely need to be motivated enough to look for them.

Using Oracle is a habit from the days when the systems I was paid to support were only allowed to install an Oracle distributed version of Java.

There are stories about bugs that get fixed by Oracle before adoptium and edge cases where certain integrations are easier with one over the other. None of those anecdotes seem to be particularly relevant to KoLmafia.

I made the comment mostly to point out that Java.com has not been the best source for Oracle updates for many years.

Thanks for pointing that out. Prior to Mafia's requirement of needing something better than Java 8, I wasn't even aware there was something better than Java 8, or that something like Adoptium existed. It's not something I would've thought to even look up, because doing so would seem to be counter to the common logic of "this is where we're supposed to get Java from" that Oracle seems to have cultivated.

 

[MCroft]

Thanks for pointing that out. Prior to Mafia's requirement of needing something better than Java 8, I wasn't even aware there was something better than Java 8, or that something like Adoptium existed. It's not something I would've thought to even look up, because doing so would seem to be counter to the common logic of "this is where we're supposed to get Java from" that Oracle seems to have cultivated.

That does seem like what Oracle has cultivated, which may make sense for their paid customers. Fortunately, there are solutions for our use case as well.

We've tried to make it clear on the top of the forum and the wiki and in pinned threads what's needed. I'm glad you got the information you needed.

Are there other places that you might've seen a message that would've helped?

 

[MCroft]

This handy chart is already out of date (AdoptOpenJDK should now be Eclipse Terumin, OpenJ9 is now IBM Semeru), but most of KoLmafia users are on the first line. These are just opinions, but I basically agree. The Java community has made it as easy to choose a vendor as it is to choose between flavors of Linux, with fewer differences upon which to base a choice.

I'm putting it here for future readers to find...

 

[ToughPapaya]

What version of .NET core do I need for this updater?

 

[fronobulax]

See GitHub

GitHub - Malurth/KoLMafia-Updater: A simple tool to automatically update + launch KoLMafia.

A simple tool to automatically update + launch KoLMafia. - GitHub - Malurth/KoLMafia-Updater: A simple tool to automatically update + launch KoLMafia.

github.com

It only works on Windows, and you'll need to download the .NET Framework if you don't already have it: https://dotnet.microsoft.com/download/dotnet-framework

That link leads to Microsoft.

I'd try 4.8.1 or 4.8 since 4.8 was probably the latest version when the code was written.