Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Simon McVittie <s...@debian.org>
I'm considering packaging dpmaster, to go with Debian's Quake 1 and Quake 3 engines. I'd maintain this package within the Debian Games Team. If considered useful, I might also run an instance of it as an unofficial Debian service (by pointing dpmaster.debian.net at my own server), and configure Debian's darkplaces and ioquake3 engines to use that service in parallel with the upstream-recommended defaults (they can use any number of master servers, and will take the union of the results). * Package name : dpmaster Version : 2.2 Upstream Author : Mathieu Olivier <molivier, at users.sourceforge.net> * URL : http://icculus.org/twilight/darkplaces/ * License : GPL-2+ Programming Lang: C (+ Perl for the regression tests) Description : master server (public server list) for Quake-related games Quake III Arena, and many similar games, discover public servers by sending a query to one or more "master servers", which lists all servers that have been configured to send a "heartbeat" to that same master server. dpmaster is a lightweight master server implementation, written from scratch for DarkPlaces. It uses an open protocol based on the one from Quake III Arena, in which new games can advertise themselves on an existing master server without changes to the master server. Games natively supporting the DarkPlaces master server protocol include those derived from DarkPlaces (including Nexuiz, Xonotic and Transfusion), QFusion (including Warsow), FTE QuakeWorld, and recent versions of ioQuake3. In addition to its own protocol, dpmaster also supports the master protocols used by Quake III Arena, Return to Castle Wolfenstein, and Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory. Standalone games using the Quake III Arena engine, such as OpenArena, World of Padman, Smokin' Guns and Urban Terror, are also supported. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-wnpp-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110730180124.ga21...@reptile.pseudorandom.co.uk
