Re: B.A.L.L.Z. in Debian
Hi again,
I'll take you up on your offer and humbly request SVN access :)
I fixed the menu scroll bug with guichan 0.8 and as far as I could
test the rest of the game works properly.
It would be nice if we could make the changes and release a new
tarball that would be easier to package in distros.
Would that be ok?
PS:
Btw, the GCode tarball lacks a few guichan files to compile. It
looks like the tarball I'm working on is actually from:
http://www.happypenguin.org/show?B.A.L.L.Z
http://www.cyd.liu.se/~olona869/ballz-1.0.tar.gz
which is probably an update when that was first reported:
http://www.allegro.cc/forums/thread/590875/663564#target
Ah, forensics... ;)
--
Sylvain
On Tue, Oct 07, 2008 at 07:42:17PM +0200, Sylvain Beucler wrote:
> Hi Per,
>
> Thanks for the ballz project link, I didn't know about it :)
>
>
> About guichan: it's often a policy in GNU/Linux distros to use the
> system/packaged libraries, to ease library updates (in particular
> security updates).
>
> In this case we assumed this was an unmodified guichan, but indeed
> there is a little bug in the level selection menu when guichan is
> replaced - now I know where this comes from ;)
>
>
> Cheers!
>
> --
> Sylvain
>
> On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 04:26:55PM +0200, Per Larsson wrote:
> > Hi Sylvain,
> >
> > Nice to hear you liked our game!
> >
> > There is a repository on google code which also acts as a kind of
> > homepage for ballz: http://code.google.com/p/db-tins07/
> >
> > Regarding guichan I think you'd better keep the version packaged with
> > the game. I don't remember exactly right now, but we may have hacked
> > it around a bit, and there is a chance that newer versions of guichan
> > may break the game (we made this game in 72 hours, remember? :) ). In
> > any case I think neither me nor Olof are motivated to maintain the
> > game any longer, it was just a fun one-off effort for the TINS
> > competition. If someone really feels like fixing our bugs and
> > improving the game, then at least I would be OK with giving them write
> > access to the svn repository. Again, I'm speaking for myself here, but
> > I guess Olof will reply if he disagrees ;).
> >
> > Regards,
> > Per
> >
> >
> > On Sun, Oct 5, 2008 at 11:01 AM, Sylvain Beucler <beuc@beuc.net> wrote:
> > > Hello Olof and Per,
> > >
> > >
> > > After playing ballz, the Debian Games team worked on packaging it as a
> > > .deb to include it in the Debian GNU/Linux distribution :)
> > >
> > > Progress can be seen at:
> > > http://git.debian.org/?p=pkg-games/ballz.git
> > >
> > >
> > > We noticed though that the official website http://www.darkbits.org/
> > > is currently empty. Is there a new location?
> > >
> > >
> > > We also used a few patches developped by the Fedora packager (Hans de
> > > Goede), for example to use newer versions of guichan. It may worth
> > > including them in the official version, to avoid each distribution
> > > forking the game and progressively becoming out-of-sync :)
> > > What do you think?
> > >
> > >
> > > Thanks for releasing this nice game!
> > >
> > > --
> > > Sylvain
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