Re: LÖVE 0.9.0 breaks compatibility with nearly every 0.8.0 game
The main problem is that there's no way of telling which version of
Löve has to be used to play a .love game without trying each of them
and see if they go or not. No metadata nor version file or number
anywhere. Otherwise, maybe some kind of dispatcher/executter
intermediate program could be used.
Miry
2014/1/22 Jonathan Dowland <jmtd@debian.org>:
> On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 12:49:53PM +0100, Miriam Ruiz wrote:
>> Well, I already have Löve packages created for 0.8.0 that can coexist
>> with the latest version:
>>
>> http://miriamruiz.es/debian/love/
>>
>> It should be easy enough to upload them. The downside I see, is that
>> if there are any issues with these older versions, I'm not sure if
>> we'll get much support from upstream.
>
> We'll have to be careful with alternatives-system priorities and the
> binfmt registration. The love package(s) register /usr/bin/love as an
> interpreter for love files; although as I recall there are some caveats.
> Anyway, whichever of 0.8 or 0.9 provides /usr/bin/love on a system will
> be the interpreter that is launched when someone tries to execute a love
> game (which might include double-clicking it in some DEs). This should
> ideally be whichever interpreter is the most likely to be correct, which
> from what I've read so far, seems to be 0.8. Perhaps 0.9 needs a lower
> alternatives priority.
>
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