I'm back - updating old mods

[thefamilygrog66]

Hey All,

I used to be pretty involved in the game formerly known as Minetest, specifically with writing mods and hosting a few different servers (e.g. Groglandia and The Darkside), as well as playing on a number of different servers and making a few friends along the way. Glad to see some of my old mods still kicking around here and there!

Anyway, I've recently gotten back into what is now known as Luanti, and am planning on updating my old mods, most of which still contain deprecated lua code, and hosting at least one new public server eventually. Which brings me to my question:

What would be the best resource(s) for updating the code in my old mods so that they're compatible with the newest version of Luanti? Are there any automatic parsers that could help?

Any suggestion would be greatly appreciated, and I'm really looking forward to catching up with the community again!

Grog (aka Mort)

[Krock]

Welcome back!

Here's a stupid simple script of mine to replace some old notations: https://gist.github.com/SmallJoker/cb89 ... ced1c5fc31

[thefamilygrog66]

Welcome back!

Here's a stupid simple script of mine to replace some old notations: https://gist.github.com/SmallJoker/cb89 ... ced1c5fc31

Thanks Krock, it's greatly appreciated!

[Wuzzy]

I also strongly recommend to set chat_log_level = warning in your Luanti settings so that warnings appear in your chat as well so you're less likely to miss them.

Luanti will log warnings for all or most deprecated function calls. Luanti has also become better with the warnings in general. It helped me find mistakes in my code countless times.

As for other deprecations, you want to check out the changelog: https://docs.luanti.org/about/changelog/

(btw: the old Minetest Wiki and Minetest Developer Wiki are TOAST. They have been replaced with the inferior docs.luanti.org because MediaWiki is too heavy :-( )

[Blockhead]

(btw: the old Minetest Wiki and Minetest Developer Wiki are TOAST. They have been replaced with the inferior docs.luanti.org because MediaWiki is too heavy :-( )

Don't forget MediaWiki accounts were rarer than rocking-horse poo on the main wiki, let alone the dev one, and the consensus was that duplication was too common with the dev wiki and lua_api.md

[thefamilygrog66]

I also strongly recommend to set chat_log_level = warning in your Luanti settings so that warnings appear in your chat as well so you're less likely to miss them.

Luanti will log warnings for all or most deprecated function calls. Luanti has also become better with the warnings in general. It helped me find mistakes in my code countless times.

As for other deprecations, you want to check out the changelog: https://docs.luanti.org/about/changelog/

(btw: the old Minetest Wiki and Minetest Developer Wiki are TOAST. They have been replaced with the inferior docs.luanti.org because MediaWiki is too heavy :-( )

Thanks for the tips, Wuzzy