Hi! On Mon, 2008-03-24 at 22:00:34 +0000, Jon Dowland wrote: > Well it's been over two years since the original ITP, so > I'm hijacking it on behalf of the debian games team. > > I'll try to track quake1-related stuff at > <http://wiki.debian.org/Games/Quake>.
Actually, darkplaces is already in Debian, but repackaged as nexuiz. I think it would make way more sense to detangle it from nexuiz and make the latter use the former as just its engine instead, as darkplaces is able to use several other data packs, including the original Quake ones. The only problem is that some data packs conflict with others with respect to their basedir, as some expect to use a different one. For example all games using “data” as their basegame dir conflict with each other, and OpenQuartz conflicts with the original Quake due to both using “id1” as basegame dir and having no modgame dir. All this can be seen in «common.c (gamemode_info)». I think the best soltution to this would be to set fs_basedir from that same struct, depending on the game to use. This would allow packaging new games by just depending on darkplaces, shipping the data, and a symlink with the proper game name to the darkplaces binary, which would then automatically choose which game values and directories to use. regards, guillem -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-wnpp-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
