RFS: 0ad

[Vincent Cheng]

On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 3:04 AM, Paul Wise <pabs at debian.org> wrote:

> On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 5:49 PM, Vincent Cheng <vincentc1208 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Oops, don't know why I broke off mid-sentence like that. My point was
> that
> > porting 0 A.D. to work with newer versions of Spidermonkey seems to be a
> lot
> > of work for very little gain and lots of opportunities for potential
> > breakage. Philip addressed this already in an earlier message [1].
> > However, the Debian Mozilla team doesn't seem to be very enthusiastic
> about
> > supporting an older version of Spidermonkey in the long run. What would
> be
> > the best course of action now? I don't want to pressure upstream to port
> 0
> > A.D. to a newer Spidermonkey version if they have no desire to do so (and
> I
> > have no clue how to port software), I can't pressure the Debian Mozilla
> team
> > to maintain an older Spidermonkey version for a single piece of software
> > (and I'm sure that they have a lot of other work to do), and from the
> > replies I've seen so far, it seems that embedding Spidermonkey code in 0
> > A.D.'s source is a no-no, or at least strongly discouraged.
>
> Maybe porting to another JavaScript engine (like Google V8) is the
> best long-term solution?
>
> Hmmm, I've never thought of porting 0 A.D. to an entirely different JS
engine as an option. Is V8's API relatively stable compared to Spidermonkey?


> > In an earlier message [2], you suggested that various .ttf fonts
> > (DejaVuSans.ttf, DejaVuSansMono.ttf, texgyrepagella-regular.otf,
> > texgyrepagella-bold.otf) should be removed from the source package. But
> on
> > the other hand, since the fonts are source code for the glyphs, they
> > shouldn't be removed, right? Sorry, but I can't help but feel somewhat
> > confused...
>
> That was before I knew how they were being used in this package, keep
> them in the source package unless upstream introduces build-time or
> run-time text rendering.
>
>
All right, I'll leave the fonts in the source tarball then.

- Vincent
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