mudpy

The Universe.initialize_server_socket() method has been adjusted to support IPv6 addresses specified in the host facet of the internal:network element. The default for this, if unset, is now dependent on the local system’s support for IPv6 (u”::” with, or u”0.0.0.0″ without). The example configuration has been modified to recommend the IPv6 localhost address of ::1 now instead of the old IPv4 localhost 127.0.0.1 address, but this will obviously fail on systems without IPv6 support (these should hopefully be few and far between any longer?).

Additional tweaks in this release include changing the shebang line in bin/mudpy to source the interpreter’s path from /usr/bin/env, and adding a feature to rename the MUD process to that of the script itself if the daemon facet of the internal:process element is set to yes.

Many thanks to Mark Kolloros (a.k.a. Colourful) for pointing out a problem with the command_say() function, where a type exception could be triggered if an actor provided parameters to the say command which evaluated to an empty string. This is fixed in today’s release, along with some cleanup and a couple of additional improvements to command_say():

• Now, instead of denying parameters which look like replacement macros, they are simply escaped before being processed.
• If you want to avoid having the language fix-ups (capitalization, punctuation, typo corrections) applied, simply enclose your string in quotation marks.