Fedora Games SIG September 2011

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Doom engines
by Rahul Sundaram 02 Oct '11

02 Oct '11

Hi Vavoom has already been packaged for a long time in Fedora and uses autodownloader for enabling users to use the shareware data easily. I have recently packaged a alternative Doom engine called Chocolate Doom [2] which is a more conservative port that aims to be more compatible with mods. I could package other Doom engines out there including odamex[2], some of them unique. It doesn't make much sense to duplicate the autodownloader related files. Debian has some guidelines [3] What would be the best way to handle this? References: 1. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=730851 2. http://odamex.net/ 3. http://pkg-games.alioth.debian.org/doom-packaging/ Rahul

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Looking at retiring "chess"
by Bruno Wolff III 27 Sep '11

27 Sep '11

I was hoping to be able to work on a forked version of chess and have it replace chess in Fedora, but I haven't had time to learn enough about ogre to do this, and chess is broken enough now that there is no point in including it any more. So I am looking at retiring it in f16+. The current status is that upstream is dead, but OK with a fork. The meshes use an old enough format that they don't appear to work any more with recent ogres. (Previously there had been warnings about obsolete formats.) The api for ogre has changed enough that chess crashes pretty much for everyone even though it builds. I'd still like to see the ogrechess fork get done someday, but given how broken chess is currently, I don't think it is a good idea to keep it in the repository any more. Unless someone speaks up, with some plan to make the current version work in the near future, I'll start the retirement process in about a week.

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Packaging Xonotic - Nexuiz fork
by Rahul Sundaram 09 Sep '11

09 Sep '11

Hi Anyone looking at packaging Xonotic? Xonotic is a Nexuiz fork or really the continuation of the original name under a name name http://www.xonotic.org/the-game/faq/ The game is now under a playable stage with many improvements http://www.xonotic.org/2011/09/xonotic-0-5-release/ It bundles the Dark places engine and it is probably better to unbundle it similar to what happened with OpenArena and ioquake but that might require additional effort. I intend to take a look at this later but if anyone wants to get involved, that would be great Rahul

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Fedora Games SIG September 2011