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Frequently asked questions about the PennMUSH Server, 1.8.X
Updated: May 16 2011
0. What's the release history since 1.50pl10?
1. How do I ask for help with a problem?
2. How do I report a bug?
3. How do I request a new feature?
4. Where can I get more information about admin'ing and hacking MUSH?
5. Where can I hear about new releases?
6. Why doesn't %t or space() work right for Pueblo clients?
7. Which signals does PennMUSH understand?
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0. What's the release history since 1.50pl10?
PennMUSH has been around for a long time. The above-mentioned 1.50p10
(1.5.0p10) release was made in 1995, and Penn wasn't new then.
PennMUSH 1.50pl10 was the last patchlevel of PennMUSH developed by Amberyl.
Amberyl handed over the maintenance, development, and support of
PennMUSH to Javelin/Paul (Alan Schwartz) after 1.50pl10.
The first two post-pl10 releases were termed the "dune-1" and "dune-2"
releases (in honor of DuneMUSH, where Alan did most of his development
work). Amberyl and Javelin agreed that it was silly to start a whole
new numbering scheme, so the next patchlevel released was pl11.
Javelin, along with the other two PennMUSH developers, T. Alexander
Popiel and Ralph Melton, made so many internal changes that it was
time for a new numbering scheme, and PennMUSH was advanced to 1.6.x.
Ralph Melton has since retired, and Thorvald Natvig took his place on
the devteam. He rewrote the command parser, and PennMUSH was advanced
to 1.7.0. Talek and Thorvald have both since retired, and many other
people have submitted code, both as official developers or community
contributors over the years.
In July 2006, Raevnos took over from Javelin as maintainer. Currently,
the active development team is Raevnos, Walker, Mike and Intrevis.
The current version is 1.8.4.
1. How do I ask for help with a problem?
There are several options:
* Ask on M*U*S*H, a game where the PennMUSH developers and many other
talented folk hang out. mush.pennmush.org 4201
* Ask on the community portal, at http://community.pennmush.org
* File an issue with the devs (See the link below for the google code
bug tracker).
2. How do I report a bug?
Visit http://code.google.com/p/pennmush/issues/list
Include specific information: PennMUSH version, OS, how to reproduce
the problem, what local changes you've made to the source. If you know
what's causing the bug, or how to fix it, or if you have a patch for
the bug, send it along. If you don't, and the bug caused a crash with
a core dump, you can send along a stack trace.
3. How do I request a new feature?
Visit http://code.google.com/p/pennmush/issues/list
No promises, but we try to get back to you about the feasibility of
suggestions quickly, and implement them as we can. Features that come
with a patch implementing them tend to get accepted faster than those
that don't unless it's a trivial addition.
4. Where can I get more information about admin'ing and hacking MUSH?
Read Javelin's God for PennMUSH Gods, loads of info about setting up a
MUSH, hacking source code, daily maintenance, and many tips from other
Gods! It's a bit dated in some respects but still very useful. The
Guide can be found at http://download.pennmush.org/Guide/
The community portal at http://community.pennmush.org also has guides
and reference material for working with mush hardcode.
5. Where can I hear about new releases?
New releases of the PennMUSH code are announced at
http://community.pennmush.org and on M*U*S*H (mush.pennmush.org 4201)
and as new featured downloads on the google code site.
6. Why doesn't %t or space() work right for Pueblo clients?
Actually, it does. Pueblo is built around an HTML browser. In HTML,
multiple whitespace is ignored and treated as a single space. This is
correct behavior. In HTML, if you really want spaces to count as
spaces, you must put your text in <PRE>..</PRE> blocks,
e.g. tagwrap(PRE,this %t has %t tabs %t and %b%b spaces).
7. Which signals does PennMUSH understand?
PennMUSH understands the following signals, and performs the listed action:
-HUP ( 1) Performs a silent @readcache
-USR1 (16) Performs an @shutdown/reboot
-USR2 (17) Performs an @dump
-INT ( 2) Performs an @shutdown
-TERM (15) Performs an @shutdown/panic