stellariumscope broken

[mora]

Hello,
is seems that stellariumscope doest not work with the last beta.
The scope mark is visible, the telescope plugin is configured, but nothing move when a goto is launched.
I described the problem on the stellariumscope authors but no answer yet.
May be this can be fixed in Stellarium.
Thanks.
Pascal

[Alexander Wolf (alexwolf)]

Telescope Control Plugin and Stellarium has changes in API and ABI. We can restore work of StellariumScope plugin only through one way - removing all fixes, who has been made in latest months. Make binary package of any 3rd party plugins has no sense when Stellarium published as beta, because API and ABI is not stable in this case. You should use stable version of Stellarium with StellariumScope plugin.

[mora (pascal-mora)]

Ok, I just reported a problem in a beta software and suggested an action, I think it has a certain 'sense' in a beta test, and, the next time I will not take the time to be polite.

[Alexander Wolf (alexwolf)]

StellariumScope plugin is proposed for usage in the stable versions only and we can't re-build it for the usage within beta versions. As I say before: we changed API and ABI in the core of Stellarium and in the Telescope Control plugin for enhancement of the features of both modules.

You can be polite or not with Stellarium's team but in any case I don't understand, how exactly we can store compatibility with closed-source software on the one side and adding the new features on the other side.

We don't have any requests from StellariumScope developers and apparently they didn't have any problem with compatibility of different versions of Stellarium.