Parchment broken in Inform 10

So just a PSA. I’ve noticed an issue when trying to export with Parchment, and that was infinite loading. At first I’ve thought it was browser security messing it up so I set up a simple HTTP server and uploaded it there, unfortunately the infinite loading was still there. Then I’ve thought the problem might be Firefox so I loaded it in edge, with the familiar results.

As it turns out, the Parchment that is shipped with the 2022 build of Inform 7 10.x (which is the most recent release) is broken. You need to update it from the official Parchment repo. Then it will work even if opened locally.

Just a PSA for people who decided to
Release along with the "Parchment" interpreter.

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Yeah that was pretty embarrassing!

Since then I’ve added automatic testing for the Inform template, so obvious bugs like this won’t happen again.

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Perhaps it is worth of pushing a new IDE release that is functionally identical to 10.1.2, but has fixed template?

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