2027 wpilib Alpha-6 uses "wpilibYear" rather than "frcYear"

[gearsincorg]

I'm a career programmer, but a novice with library dependencies etc.

I'm in an FTC Alpha test team and I'm trying to incorporate AdvantageKit into my Alpha testing.
wpilib is currently at Alpha 6

I tried using the AdvantageLit 2027 Alpha 3 json, but it would not build.
I discovered that to get it to build, I needed the update the lib json to define

"wpilibYear": "2027_alpha5",

rather than
"frcYear": "2027_alpha1",

I just wanted to point out this change.
I assume this is because wpilib is no longer 100% FRC centric.

[jwbonner]

Thanks for the note. Keep in mind that AdvantageKit v26.0.2 is not compatible with WPILib alpha 6. Many of the changes (Driver Station, robot base class) directly break AdvantageKit functionality, so it may take some time before we release a compatible version.

[gearsincorg]

Yeah, that's a bummer.
As a recent AdvantageKit adopter on my FRC team, I was really looking forward to also using it with my FTC team.

Waiting with bated breath :)

[blaze-developer]

To my knowledge, not a single vendor has updated their libraries for the new WPILib versions as of yet. I think everything will be working in due time. :)