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# Migration from AliceOS | ||
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On **May 1st, 2022**, the AliceOS project will cease development. It is highly | ||
recommended that you migrate from AliceOS over to Candella, as it provides the | ||
same feature set with extra enhancements and features to make your visual novel | ||
game stand out. | ||
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## Full Announcement from Project Alice | ||
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Hello, fellow AliceOS developers! 👋🏻 | ||
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For the past few years, AliceOS has remained a good framework used to provide an | ||
operating system-like experience to visual novels and other games created in the | ||
Ren'Py visual novel engine. We've been excited to see the project grow since its | ||
initial technical previews in 2018 and taking a life of its own from the now outdated | ||
_The Angel Returns_ project. | ||
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You'll have likely noticed development has stalled in most recent years, begging | ||
whether AliceOS will continue development in the future. I'm writing this | ||
announcement today to let you know that, on **May 1st, 2022**, the project will | ||
officially cease development of the AliceOS project. | ||
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This was a hard decision to make. As developers, we love AliceOS and what it has been | ||
capable of these past years. However, as we get involved with more projects, | ||
maintaining AliceOS and its feature set has been rather difficult. As such, we felt | ||
it is appropriate to cease development of AliceOS. | ||
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However, this does not mean that AliceOS is completely dead. There are a few options | ||
available to developers: | ||
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- **Using AliceOS as-is**: Nothing is stopping you from using AliceOS Prospect Park | ||
as it stands today. Prospect Park is still a great release with a number of | ||
enhancements and improvements over the first release of AliceOS. | ||
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- **Making your own fork**: AliceOS remains a free and open-source solution under the | ||
BSD-2-Clause license, allowing you to make modifications to the AliceOS source code | ||
to fit your needs. We've seen a number of forks rise recently with additions for | ||
other languages and other features, and we're excited to see AliceOS live on in these | ||
forks. | ||
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- **Using Candella**: [Candella](https://candella.unscriptedvn.dev) is a fork of | ||
AliceOS that adds features and enhancements we planned for the next release of | ||
AliceOS and provides a great experience for other developers with new APIs and an | ||
SDK. Although originally designed for Unscripted, it is actively maintained by | ||
some members of the AliceOS team (@alicerunsonfedora). We recommend migrating to | ||
Candella from AliceOS for a smooth experience. | ||
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### Sunsetting Strategy | ||
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With this in mind, we'll be doing the following on our end: | ||
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- **Archiving the AliceOS Repository**: We'll be archiving the repository and making | ||
it read-only; however, you can still fork a copy of the repository and make any | ||
adjustments you want on your fork. This will take effect immediately. | ||
- **Shutting down aliceos.app**: As we recommend using Candella, we will be | ||
redirecting developers to the Candella documentation when visiting aliceos.app. We | ||
plan to shut down the aliceos.app domain by **July 7th, 2022**. | ||
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I'd personally like to thank the AliceOS development team, developers, and partners | ||
for making AliceOS what it is today. While it is sad to see AliceOS go, I hope to see | ||
it live on in the future through other forks like Candella. | ||
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\- Marquis Kurt (@alicerunsonfedora) | ||
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## How do I migrate? | ||
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If you're using AliceOS Prospect Park or later, simply delete `aliceos.rpa` and | ||
follow the instructions in the [Getting Started](./01-getting-started.md) material. | ||
There should be little friction when migrating your existing project over, as | ||
Candella contains the same APIs and tools as AliceOS does. | ||
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If you do encounter any issues, file a support ticket on the Candella page at | ||
[https://github.com/UnscriptedVN/candella/discussions/new?category=support-q-a](https://github.com/UnscriptedVN/candella/discussions/new?category=support-q-a). |
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