Pre-Release 5.7.1-alpha1

As well as some other changes, as below, this is a 64-bit release for plugin developers to test against. Moving forwards we're looking into producing both 32-bit and 64-bit build/installers. See also https://github.com/EDCD/EDMarketConnector/releases/tag/Release%2F5.5.1-alpha0

• New Feature - Perform a CAPI /fleetcarrier query when you open the Carrier Management UI in-game. It will also trigger when you buy an FC (Fleet Carrier).

  1. You will need to enable this using the new option on the Configuration tab of Settings.
  2. There will be a slight delay before the query is even initiated.
  3. These queries can take a long time, depending on the number of separate 'lots' of cargo, and orders, you have in your FC. In the meantime the normal 'station' CAPI queries will be blocked. Thus, it is advised to only enable this feature if you know you have an active plugin that utilises the data.
     However, currently the timeout for such queries is set at one minute, so any query taking longer than that will fail. This timeout will be tweaked based on user feedback. Ultimately we will look into making these queries independent of the 'station' CAPI queries.
  4. Due to the last point, there is an enforced 15 minute delay between the last such query completing and a new one being initiated.

• If we ever activate any functionality killswitches, the popup denoting which are active has been made more readable.

• There's a new section in Contributing.md - "Python Environment". This should aid any new developers in getting things set up.

• The code for choosing the 'Output' folder is now simply the tkinter function for such a dialogue, rather than a special case on Windows. In the past the former had issues with Unicode characters, but in testing no such issue was observed (on a supported OS).

Bug Fixes

• Use of CAPI data in EDMC.exe when invoked with either -s or -n arguments hadn't been updated for prior changes, causing such invocations to fail. This has been fixed.

Plugin Developers

• In order to make use of the data from a /fleetcarrier query you will need to implement the new function capi_fleetcarrier(). See PLUGINS.md for details.

• FDevIDs files are their latest versions at time of this version's build.

• examples\plugintest - dropped the "pre-5.0.0 config" code, as it's long since irrelevant.

NB: The EDMarketConnector_win_5.7.1-alpha1.msi file attached here was built on Athanasius' machine, not on GitHub. Here's what VirusTotal thinks.