RFS: 0ad

[Vincent Cheng]

On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 1:53 AM, Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar at debian.org> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Vincent Cheng <vincentc1208 at gmail.com> writes:
> > - package libenet1.2, and replace 0ad's build dependency on
> > libenet-dev with this new package
>
> We just got rid of enet 1.2 in testing a few days ago and I prefer to
> have just a single version per release to care about (instead of
> doubling the number of possible versions from five to ten).
>
> For Ubuntu users, upstream could include the newer enet in their PPA.
> The packages containing the library itself are co-installable, only the
> -dev packages for enet 1.2 and 1.3 are not.
>
> I don't know how to best handle other distributions, but doesn't
> upstream have to bundle enet anyway for Windows and Mac OS X users?
>
> I agree that it would be preferable if we only had to deal with a single
enet version, although that depends on whether upstream is willing to port 0
A.D. to enet 1.3. Fortunately, it looks like Philip is willing to consider
this option. :)


> > - package libmozjs185, and remove the spidermonkey code that's
> > currently in the source tarball (this could be deferred until alpha 5
> > is released, since according to Philip, 0 A.D. hasn't been ported to
> > work with it yet; for now, I guess we'll have to leave the
> > spidermonkey code embedded in the source tarball)
>
> I suggest to ask the maintainers' of libmozjs-dev how they think about
> this.
>
> I've just sent a message to the Debian Mozilla crew; hopefully we'll get
another favourable response.

- Vincent
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