Re: LÖVE 0.9.0 breaks compatibility with nearly every 0.8.0 game
On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 01:49:40PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote:
> There are zero reverse dependencies in the archive
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> Of course Debian is not an island and users will want to be running
> LÖVE games that aren't in Debian using the Debian love package.
They'll have to: unless LÖVE games exist in the archive erroneously
missing a dependency on LÖVE, there is nothing to play without using
externally sourced games. Therefore the consideration about what to do
has to take into account what the LÖVE community has done with regards
moving to 0.9.
> So I guess upgrade the love package now and users can keep the package
> on hold if they need to. If you get enough requests for 0.8 then
> package the old version too.
I'd be inclined to agree with Miriam that one should support 0.8 and 0.9
concurrently, or delay moving to 0.9 in the archive, until there's a
critical mass of games in the wider world converted to 0.9.
The only LÖVE game I know about is mari0, which has not been updated to
0.9 afaics. I don't know if that is representative of the wider
community. Does anyone else?
[1] http://stabyourself.net/mari0/
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