Re: clanbomber and clanlib

[Barry deFreese <bddebian@comcast.net>]

Hans de Goede wrote:
> Paul Wise wrote:
> > On Sat, Mar 1, 2008 at 4:10 AM, Hans de Goede <j.w.r.degoede@hhs.nl> 
> > wrote:
> >
> > >  My 2 cents (as a Fedora guy lurking here) keep both ClanLib-0.8 and 
> > > 0.6, thats
> > >  what we do (well actually I as I maintain both). We currently have 
> > > 2 games
> > >  using it: clanbomber and auriferous. And I know of a few other 
> > > clanlib-0.6
> > >  games which I'm consider packaging too.
> >
> > auriferous looks cool. What are these other games?
>
> I'm considering packaging:
>
> * Trophy - 2D car racing game - http://trophy.sourceforge.net
This one looks nice.  From the website:   24/05/2007 Trophy ported to 
ClanLib 0.8

> * Race - 3D top view racing game - http://race.sourceforge.net - warning
>   upstream is dead
This looks interesting but the homepage says it uses clanlib 0.7 which 
wasn't even ever "released" was it?

> * ClanShip - battleship game
> - web:
> http://web.archive.org/web/20050305231257/www.swoogan.com/clanship.html 
> - source: 
> http://www.sourcefiles.org/Games/Strategy/Warfare/Battleships/ClanShip-1.0.5f.zip 
> - warning upstream is dead
Looks like this one uses ClanLib 0.7.7 as well.
> Also for a long list of clanlib games (most 0.6, which is why I keep 
> maintaining 0.6 in Fedora) see:
> http://web.archive.org/web/20061006084619/http://www.clanlib.org/games.html 
>
>
> > >  Note auriferous is a nice loderunner like game, if you want to 
> > > package it start
> > >  with the Fedora package, lots of patches needed to get the c++ code 
> > > to work
> > >  properly with a modern gcc!
> >
> > Upstream patch tracker seems to be missing your patches.
>
> Yes, they do not appear to be using it, nor any of the sourceforge 
> infra, except for the website. also upstream seems somewhat dead (as 
> in no updates for ages despite lots of bugs). I think I've tried to 
> contact them when I did the package but I'm not sure.
>
> You can grab all my pathces here:
> http://cvs.fedoraproject.org/viewcvs/devel/auriferous/
>
> I see a slumped most of them together in one big patch, anyways the 
> -fixes patch contains both fixes to get it to compile with newer gcc's 
> as a slew of real bugfixes (make it actually run instead of crash and 
> burn all the time).
>
> Regards,
>
> Hans
Thanks again!!

Barry deFreese