Compatibility with Spigot 1.8
DSH105 opened this issue ยท 4 comments
Content of forum post for easy reference (http://dev.bukkit.org/bukkit-plugins/echopet/forum/72642):
As many of you may now be aware, the Spigot team have recently announced a 1.8 release for Bukkit, CraftBukkit and Spigot. Due to the nature of the way EchoPet interacts with the Minecraft server, existing plugin downloads will not be compatible with this new Spigot release.
Will compatibility be as painful as with the last 1.7/1.8 protocol patch?
Nope. EchoPet locks its volatile 'NMS' (net.minecraft.server) code to specific CraftBukkit versions to prevent any nasty server or client crashes occurring. Unfortunately, this did not protect the plugin from the last update, as detection of the version at startup was not entirely accurate (in a simpler sense, 1.7 was 'pretending' to be 1.8).
As the new Spigot release is a true 1.8 update, current releases of EchoPet will not enable when you start up your server. This is supposed to happen; the plugin is not yet ready for 1.8.
Will there be an update for 1.8?
Yes, of course! However, there are currently certain things preventing me from placing full emphasis on updating EchoPet (exams, other personal reasons, etc.). I know in the past my communication with everyone on this sort of thing has not been as good as a could have been; this post mainly aims to shed some light on the situation and assure you that there will be an update for EchoPet with compatibility for CraftBukkit/Spigot 1.8 (just not immediately).
Do you have an ETA on release time?
Depending on other aforementioned factors, I estimate that work will begin on an update throughout next week. A release can likely be expected within the next 1.5-2 weeks. This is _not_ a definite or exact date.
Thanks for your patience <3.
Note for those watching this issue: the commit above is experimental and as of this comment, untested. Jenkins builds are not enabled for this branch because of this.
