Re: clanbomber and clanlib

[Barry deFreese <bddebian@comcast.net>]

Hans de Goede wrote:
> <snip>
> > > >
> > >
> > > 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
>
> Nice, upstream is alive again, excellent! (I guess you can tell now 
> that I made this list quite some time ago, almost a year it seems).
Yeah, hard to keep up sometimes isn't it! :)

> > > * 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?
>
> It was as a development release leading to 0.8 (they use linux kernel 
> versioning style), so I guess this could be easy to port to 0.8, or 
> not, the amount of API changes in ClanLib between 0.6 and 0.8 was 
> massive.
Yeah so I noticed in trying to build clanbomber with 0.8. ;-)

> > > * 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.
>
> Then again, it could be easy to port to 0.8, or maybe not.
>
> Regards,
>
> Hans
I'm a little curious how you folks are carrying 0.6 and 0.8.  Do they 
conflict?  While 0.8 carries libclanCore-0.8.so.1 it still uses 
libclanCore.so for the symlink.

Thanks again!

Barry deFreese