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Time to get out of alpha maybe ? :)

Posted: Fri Aug 14, 2020 5:56 pm
by Koub
2020-08-14 19_54_48-Factorio 1.0.0.jpg
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Download links & Mac dmg and Linux xz files still called "alpha"

Posted: Fri Aug 14, 2020 6:22 pm
by rainbow
On the download page: https://factorio.com/download

When you hover over the download links, they look like:
- https://factorio.com/get-download/1.0.0 ... n64-manual
- https://factorio.com/get-download/1.0.0/alpha/win64
- https://factorio.com/get-download/1.0.0/alpha/osx
- https://factorio.com/get-download/1.0.0/alpha/linux64
- https://factorio.com/get-download/1.0.0 ... ss/linux64

So for all except the headless download, there is still "alpha" in the download link.

Futhermore, the Mac and Linux file names also still have "alpha" in them:
- Mac: factorio_alpha_1.0.0.dmg
- Linux: factorio_alpha_x64_1.0.0.tar.xz


I would expect the "alpha" to not be there any more, since it's now a full release.

Re: Time to get out of alpha maybe ? :)

Posted: Fri Aug 14, 2020 6:37 pm
by Optera
Shouldn't it have been beta for the last years? :roll:

Re: Time to get out of alpha maybe ? :)

Posted: Fri Aug 14, 2020 8:24 pm
by Koub
Oh I forgot to tell the screenshot is from the zip version on Factorio website. On Steam, it's not labelled as alpha any more.

Re: Time to get out of alpha maybe ? :)

Posted: Fri Aug 14, 2020 8:39 pm
by posila
Koub wrote: Fri Aug 14, 2020 8:24 pm Oh I forgot to tell the screenshot is from the zip version on Factorio website. On Steam, it's not labelled as alpha any more.
Unfortunatelly, many years ago, this string became indicator of a build, not a development stage ... the strings are "steam", "demo", "steamdemo", "headless" and "alpha". So it was never labelled as "alpha" on Steam. And unfortunatelly the strings are baked into too many things for anyone to be brave to start messing with it before the big release. Out of shame I hid the "alpha" part in the main menu, but file names and URLs won't change anytime soon.

Re: Time to get out of alpha maybe ? :)

Posted: Mon Nov 23, 2020 8:57 pm
by valneq
Posila's last answer was indeed implemented for 1.1.0, so it can be considered "implemented". However, the filenames and URLs still contain the term "alpha", for compatibility reasons apparently.
factorio_about_1.1.0.png
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Re: Time to get out of alpha maybe ? :)

Posted: Mon Nov 23, 2020 10:09 pm
by Koub
[Koub] That's good enough for me. Moved to implemented.