2012/5/13 Hans de Goede<hdegoede(a)redhat.com>:
> Hi,
>
>
> On 05/12/2012 07:15 PM, Nelson Marques wrote:
>>
>> 2012/5/12 Hans de Goede<hdegoede(a)redhat.com>:
>
> <snip>
>
>
>>> First of all, welcome to the Fedora Games mailinglist, and let me say
>>> that
>>> we would love to have Unknown Horizons in Fedora.
>>>
>>> You mentioned a review request for UH that you closed, which I indeed
>>> found:
>>>
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=718430
>>>
>>> That review request points to this (recently fixed) FIFE bug:
>>>
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=757352
>>>
>>> But AFAIK there is no new review request for UH, did I miss it?
>>
>>
>> I'm going to re-open it (the one you mentioned before) once we have
>> all the dependencies prepared, let go a bit further:
>>
>> 1. Tom (spot) has updated the dependencies required to update ENet
>> (libenet), which provides the base layer for multiplayer. With ENet
>> updated, I can continue with my review request for 'python-enet' which
>> provides the python bindings used by UH for Multiplayer.
>>
>> 2. FIFE - The packaging of FIFE isn't really as I would like to be.
>> I'm gathering soon with FIFE upstream to propose a packaging model
>> that upstream can support and hopefully to implement it on the next
>> release in Fedora (and openSUSE);
>>
>
> Ok.
>
>
>> 3. Guichan - a dependency to build FIFE; This probably the only
>> blocker as we need to submit a patch which was previously submited to
>> upstream, but no action was taken on it and upstream from guichan
>> seems to be masturbating themselves with UTF-8 implementation over the
>> last 2 years but no real release was made. I'm going to propose this
>> patch to Fedora guichan, which I don't mind also to co-maintain. If
>> guichan doesn't fix this, we're (UH upstream) prepared to fork guichan
>> so we don't have to strugle with vendors who can distribute UH.
>
>
> As long as the patch does not change the API (extending it is ok),
> then that should not be a problem.
http://gitorious.org/guichan/mainline/commit/90c8966f6cb153d6ab03e146d3ad...
The patch was commited upstream, it's a simple 1 liner, but no release
was issued after it... So when a release happens we can drop it;
Now... I don't see why we can't add this patch.
Good News, we (Fedora) are have that patch in our packages :)
Regards,
Hans