Bug#777338: Bug#764200: ITP: rbdoom3bfg -- Doom3 BFG edition game engine

[Tobias Frost]

Am Samstag, den 07.02.2015, 17:42 +0000 schrieb Simon McVittie:
> On 07/02/15 16:02, Alexandre Detiste wrote:
> > I think only the BFG version is open sourced,
> > so owner of Doom 3 data would have to rebuy the same game again :-(
> 
> No, the original edition was open-sourced separately:
> https://github.com/TTimo/doom3.gpl
> 
> TTimo points to https://github.com/dhewm/dhewm3 as an active fork of
> that one.
> 
> Helpfully, the authors of dhewm3 list md5sums in
> https://github.com/dhewm/dhewm3/wiki/FAQ, so it might be possible to
> have g-d-p support without actually owning a copy ourselves (although
> IMO the actual package stanza should be commented-out in the YAML until
> we have an engine at least ITP'd, and someone has tested it).

ITP'ed dhewm3, #777373

> For dhewm3 I'd suggest using package names doom3-data,
> doom3-resurrection-data, doom3-demo-data; for the BFG edition I'd
> suggest doom3-bfg-data. I think it'd be OK to put them both in
> doom3.yaml though.
> 
> Explaining that Doom 3 and Doom 3 BFG are not compatible in the
> generated package's description is probably a good idea.
> 
>     S
>