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SUBJECT: A minor public dev branch update
   DATE: Fri  2 Dec 19:06:24 GMT 2022

Somehow it seems that I screwed up the minimal Go version required to compile
WolfMUD. I know several issues required the version to be bumped up, but that
seems to have been for the previous incarnation before the re-rewrite.

When I started the rewrite I don't think the version was reset and we ended up
with go.mod specifying Go 1.16 and docs/compiling-from-source.txt specifying
Go 1.14 as the minimum version.

Well it turns out that neither are correct, as pointed  out to me by a user
called wade.

In text/fold.go math.MaxInt is used which was introduced in Go 1.17. Then in
core/message.go strings.Cut is used, in term/term.go bytes.Cut is used. The
Cut methods were not introduced until Go 1.18.

What to do?

I could replace the usage of Cut. Using math.MaxInt could be replaced with an
in-line calculation. However, officially only the last two versions of Go are
supported - currently Go 1.18 and Go 1.19.

I've set the minimum version required to compile WolfMUD to be Go 1.18.

The changes to go.mod and docs/compiling-from-source.txt have been made and
pushed out to the public dev branch.

Many thanks to user wade for spotting this and for taking the time to report
it. After wrestling with my blunder, it looks like wade is working on some
very interesting things with WolfMUD :)

If you spot a bug or have a problem, please email me: diddymus@wolfmud.org

A quick, short email could save you a lot of time and hassle…

--
Diddymus


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