Roadshow 1.13 released

[olsen]

Do these updated commands, like ping, require Roadshow? Or do they work with any of the available TCP/IP stacks?

The "wget" command should work with any AmiTCP API compatible Amiga TCP/IP stack, but "ping" and "traceroute" might not work with AmiTCP because the kernel APIs are significantly different in the BSD Unix versions which AmiTCP and Roadshow are based upon, respectively. This is why, for example, the AmiTCP "route" command does not work with Roadshow.

It's possible that the use of ICMP sockets on Roadshow is sufficiently different for both Roadshow's updated "ping" and "traceroute" commands that they might not work with AmiTCP. I haven't checked...

But, no harm done, you could download the new Roadshow demo version and give these commands a spin on your AmiTCP API compatible TCP/IP stack of choice. I don't mind, and neither do these commands

[olsen]

You need to download the update archive from http://www.amigafuture.de/downloads.php?view=detail&df_id=5208

I personally find this a bit annoying, since I need to use 4 archives, the main archive, and the 3 update archives.

I hear you. Building the updated updated script, the updated patch files, etc. is a very time consuming exercise. It's one of the reasons why this update took so long to prepare.

Right now I don't have any good idea to make this a less arduous task, the "Installer" language offering not much in the way of creating a more compact patching procedure. It literally comes down to copy & pasting the same set of lines for each patch to apply, changing the names of the files, the checksums, etc. It's ugly at sixteen files already.

You have every right to be dissatisfied about the complications of applying the update. It is a sad byproduct of what I went through in making the update happen. Things cannot stay the way they are.

[olsen]

It's an IP stack, it should be able to check for updates and update itself.

Getting this to work robustly, with a safety net so as not to knock out the TCP/IP stack itself by mistake, requires a lot of work which I'm currently not convinced I could make time for.