Hi!
Thanks for replying that fast!
On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 11:34:05AM +1000, Joerg Henrichs wrote:
> Hi Christian,
>
> [...]
> > As I was told on IRC, supertuxkart wants a patch against the
> >irrlicht library for a fully functional 0.7 Version. While this just
> >adds a symbol I'm obviously not really happy to patch _shared_
> >libraries for single applications.
> I am aware of that.
>
> > Does the supertuxkart Team know whether the symbol is already
> >added / to be added unchanged in irrlicht for their next release so
> >the symbol won't disappear in 1.6 if I patch it into 1.5?
> I have posted on the irrlicht forum, and asked if this functionality
> could be added in the next release, but had no answer so far. I
> wrote an email to one of the project maintainer (who is very
> supportive of STK), but haven't had an answer yet.
OK that was what I wanted to know. Our plan for now then will be
to upload the current, unmodified 1.5 and make the changes as needed
> I hope that the needed functionality will be added to irrlicht, but
> I obviously can't speak for the irrlicht developers. Unfortunately I
> couldn't just create a new version of the driver in STK, since I
> have to call some functions in the driver that are private :(
>
> I am sure that by the time STK and irrlicht will be release, we will
> have a permanent solution for this.
Sounds good!
> >Can I be
> >sure there won't be other symbols added / removed / changed for the
> >supertuxkart irrlicht?
> I can't say - so far we found one function that is very useful for
> us, there might be more. But I hope that irrlicht and STK can sort
> those problems out.
>
> We are aware of issues of package maintainer, and we will certainly
> do our best to avoid a maintenance nightmare for you! Just be aware
> that we are currently still far away from a release, and now and
> again we need a quick solution to make more progress, but we do our
> best to have a proper solution long term.
I am well aware that supertuxkart has been alwas a rather good
experience to work with. Our problem is, that Debian might befrozen
again in December and we clearly need to do some planing if we want to
make it. Nothing you can do of course, I very much prefer a working
version to a fast release ;)
> Cheers,
> Joerg
Regards
Christoph
P.S.: I'll subscribe to the ML so you don't need to moderate any mails
after that ;)
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