On 12/06/14 17:15, Markus Koschany wrote: > Hello Mike, > > On 11.06.2014 22:37, Michael Dorrington wrote: >> I've pushed spring 97.0.1-18-gf1dd749 (develop) to my guest user Debian >> spring repo in the hope it might be useful to others: > > It seems you never received my e-mail from January. > > https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-games/2014/01/msg00053.html I received that email but failed to complete the actions before they were done in Debian, my bad. I was hoping that Debian would pull the work I'd done that was of use but Debian wanted me to identify the differences that were of use, which I have failed to do so far. > In the meantime I have been working on the spring and springlobby > package for quite some time. I saw that and it is great that Spring is being work on in Debian again. >> * http://anonscm.debian.org/git/users/michaeld-guest/spring.git/ >> * git clone git://git.debian.org/git/users/michaeld-guest/spring.git >> >> (The gitweb view is broken for guest user space since the "alioth" >> rebuild, along with guest user webspace for hosting packages.) >> >> This version is a development version for what will become the next >> stable version (98.0). The Zero-K mod/game is currently trialling this >> exact version of Spring (as well as version 97.0.1-24-g93bd67d). > > Please have a look at > > http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-games/spring.git > http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-games/springlobby.git > > The official packaging is currently up-to-date and happens there. The latest official Debian build in unstable is 96.0. The official Debian git repo is using 97.0 , which is the latest upstream tarball, but not 97.0.1 which is latest tagged upstream nor is it 97.0.1-18-gf1dd749 which the popular Zero-K mod/game is using in many of its battlerooms. As far as I understand it, 97.0 is meant only as a game/mod developers release to help in preparation for 98.0 which is why 96.0 is the version available from Spring Download page <http://springrts.com/wiki/Download>. On a related note to that, I would like the packaging to allow multiple versions of Spring to be installed side-by-side using the alternatives system or similar to switch between them. This is because different mods/games often require different Spring versions and when new versions of Spring are released there is often a period where at least two versions are in use. >> This version of Spring uses `~/.config/spring/` for its files rather >> than `~/.spring/` and I haven't added any automatic migration of files >> from the old version to the new version so this needs to be done by hand. > > The engine reads from the old layout but only writes to the new location > at ~/.config/spring. I mentioned this change in a NEWS file and the > changelog when I uploaded 96.0+dfsg-1. I have noticed that the new version of Spring doesn't read the "pool" data from the old location. This is where Spring downloads hash chunks of games/mods. With the new version of Spring it was trying to download the whole game/mod rather than just the new hash chunks as it normally does and was taking sometime. After manually copying the old hash chunks across, the update to the new game/mod was quick again. It is also possible that Spring isn't reading custom Lua scripts, widgets and config from the old location as I had issues with those seemingly not working and/or reverting to defaults. > I also intend to get 98.0 into the next stable release. If you are > really interested in helping with spring, I suggest to prepare this > version based on the current packaging of spring in Debian as soon as > the new release is available and add yourself to Uploaders. I can then > review your changes. I give that a go then. I'll post on the list after 98.0 is released to confirm I'm going ahead with packaging it based off the latest Debian git commit. Regards, Mike. -- FSF member #9429 http://www.fsf.org/register_form?referrer=9429 http://www.fsf.org/about "The Free Software Foundation (FSF) is a nonprofit with a worldwide mission to promote computer user freedom and to defend the rights of all free software users."
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