[gmail] Re: status of quake3 and taspring

[Lee Garrett]

Thanks to everyone who replied.

Marc Leeman wrote:
> I have a pretty up to date of the pkg-games build of ioquake3 on
> http://scorpius.homelinux.org/~marc/debian/ and a non-pkg-games data [...]

By googling I actually hit on your repository and already installed 
those packages. They work pretty well! Only bug I found is in the 
quake3-data pkg: When you choose to install the point release and 
the mirror doesn't have that file (ftp.idsoftware.com seems to be 
missing it), it breaks the install as it doesn't let you choose a 
different mirror. dpkg then flakes out and leaves the packages 
unconfigured. Except for that I guess those packages are fit for sid!

> There has been some delay on my part due to the fact that my personal
> and professional life is pretty hectic at the moment.
I understand. I started writing my degree this month myself :).

> This being said, I was pretty surprised that openarena has reached a
> level that is very close to q3a (next to the number of maps and the
> limited quality of some of them): the gameplay is about the same.
Looking at their screenshots, seems as though they have rebuilt some 
of the quake I maps. Makes me feel nostalgic and stuff.

> From a GNU/Debian point of view, I think that OpenArena (ioquake3 engine
> with free content) deserves more attention from us than Q3A (not
> considering the engine, since both are the same. Kudos to Bruno for the
> fine job done in packaging it.
I see. So I guess ioquake3 should be among the lines of "Depends: 
quake3-data|openarena-data"?

--Lee