On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 9:53 AM, Ansgar Burchardt <[email protected]> wrote: > For Ubuntu users, upstream could include the newer enet in their PPA. > The packages containing the library itself are co-installable, only the > -dev packages for enet 1.2 and 1.3 are not.
Hmm, I'm not particularly familiar with how the PPAs work, but if adding enet there requires zero extra effort from users installing the game then I think that'd be okay. > I don't know how to best handle other distributions, but doesn't > upstream have to bundle enet anyway for Windows and Mac OS X users? On Windows we bundle precompiled binaries (.dll and .lib), so that can be upgraded easily and is independent of the Linux / OS X approach. On OS X we don't bundle - we typically use MacPorts which currently provides ENet 1.2 (http://libenet.darwinports.com/) but I think we could give them an upgraded portfile and it'd be immediately available to all users. For all Fedora/Mandriva/OpenSUSE versions I think we could upgrade the library at https://build.opensuse.org/package/show?package=libenet&project=games so it'd work for users who install the game from that service. Arch and Gentoo already have packages for 1.3 and don't have users on old distro versions. I think all other distros that have packages for the game are too minor to worry over - they can sort themselves out as necessary. So, I suppose this could work - just need to set up ENet 1.3 packages for MacPorts and the OpenSUSE Build Service and the Ubuntu PPA, and recompile on Windows, and update the game code. (Not an entirely trivial amount of work, unfortunately :-( ) -- Philip Taylor [email protected] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
