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  • From: Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us>
  • To: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] Games grimoire guidelines
  • Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 09:24:13 -0800

Quoting "Andrew \"ruskie\" Levstik" <ruskie AT mages.ath.cx>:
> OK here goes it:
>
>
> I was thinking something about games and it dawned on me that some sort of
> versions should be available since some games break or branch out under the
> same name
> and the old ones are still playable and updated...
> So I came up with a little idea...
> Well not my idea really just a swipe from all various source based pkg
> managers.
> Simply we install the game into it's own dir in
> /usr/share/games/$SPELL-$VERSION
> and then link the binaries into /usr/games or make launcher scripts(which I
> would prefer)
> For this to happen there would be need to modify some paths but it should
> work.
> The reason is that atm bzflag1 is still being played a lot
> while there is already a bzflag2 version out there. I plan to split this
> spell into a bzflag and a bzflag2 spell which don't conflict with eachother.
>
>
> Comments, suggestions, questions just reply here... /dev/flames > /dev/null

Sounds good as many (but not all) games support changing the datadir to make
it
easy. The rest will just need wrappers to use the correct directories or some
sedits to Makefiles/source.

-sandalle

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