Bug#435288: planetpenguin-racer: New upstream version of ppracer (0.5) exists for about 2 years !

[Alexander Schmehl]

Hi!

* Mantas Kriaučiūnas <mantas at akl.lt> [070730 21:21]:

> There is new version from http://developer.berlios.de/projects/ppracer/, 
> and, according to https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/53299 : 
> [..] it is better to ship that than 0.3.1, which is getting very stale.
> 
> Some reasons to ship the newer one:
> -0.3.1 won't let you bind non alphanumeric keys, 0.5 does

I don't think thats a major problem... it's not that you would have that
much functions you need to bin to keys.  Would be nice, but not a major
problem, isn't it?


> -0.3.1 has a bug that has been fixed, where hitting enter allows the 
> user to enter any race, even if they shouldn't be allowed.

That's bug #433377, a patch exists and will most likely be applied with
the next upload.


> -0.5 has more flexibility in the options menus

Okay, I confess that's a good argument.


> -despite being labeled an alpha release, I've had no problems with 0.5

When I tested it two years ago, I had.  Didn't worked very well
(couldn't even finish one level;
http://www.planetpenguinracer.com/wiki/index.php?title=Bugs lists some
more issues).

But considering that ppracer upstream is inactive, I have a very bad
feeling about uploading an alpha release (which didn't worked for me)
while the only good argument in favour of it I see is the more flexible
options menu.

I would rather wait, if the follow up project at
http://www.planetpenguinracer.com stays alive and get's something
released; didn't had to to check their version, yet.


BTW:  Since the Format of the levels changed from 0.3.1 to 0.5 someone
would need to convert all the levels in the -extras package (as well as
the ones I have "on hold" for the next upload for the -extras package).


Yours sincerely,
  Alexander


PS:  A good point in favour would be, that 0.5 drops the TCL dependency.
An other point against it, is the own squirrel library shipped with the
0.5 stuff.
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