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Drinking Croquet Kool-Aid not as easy as I hoped

Once again, I tried sitting down and working a little bit with Croquet. However the tutorials that are available at DMU break with the version of Croquet that I have on my system.

I have applied all the updates by using the Big Updates button in Croquet. This might have been my problem. Unfortunately, Croquet is a moving target and the Updates come steadily and as a poor beginner it isn't always easy to keep up if you aren't following the curve. Just for note it seems the last updates I have according to the Change Sorter tool is August 18th, 2005. That seems a little old...

I took a shot at downloading a new version of Croquet from the website however got this message:

download is currently disabled due to technical difficulties

d'oh

While I do understand that Croquet is a moving target and at any time things will not be working. It seems my timing for trying to goof around with Croquet is impeccably bad. In theory, I could sit through and figure out what the problem is (actually I know: the problem after tracing the debugger is that when trying to load a texture it is trying to use some function pathFromURI: however there is NO Class that implements this function anymore... oops) and fix it and keep on going or perhaps submit a fix. My gut feeling tells me this is an old problem and I'm really not helping the Croquet folk move forward by fixing this problem and telling them. More likely they are trying to get this all working in the background and will have something up 'soon'.
So I'm left with one option...

Wait until another version comes out. Again. Welcome to the bleeding edge.

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