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Re: Should we break backward compatibility of the TMW client?
Posted: 14 Oct 2009, 13:29
by Jaxad0127
Linux distros are more integrated. We'd have to include all the dependencies in the package (which is one big reason why Windows takes more space than the other OSes).
Re: Should we break backward compatibility of the TMW client?
Posted: 14 Oct 2009, 14:42
by John P
It sounds like a necessary evil. Ubuntu people who cannot compile are way too big of a group to just eliminate.
As long as they have the option (download source here, or download full game w/all dependencies here), I am sure most wont mind having all of the dependencies. The population would grow with an up-to-date .deb. Just my two cents, I'm not actually smart enough to do something like this. PS Ubuntu 9.10 is stable release 10/29, so....
Re: Should we break backward compatibility of the TMW client?
Posted: 14 Oct 2009, 16:08
by Platyna
jaxad0127 wrote:Linux distros are more integrated. We'd have to include all the dependencies in the package (which is one big reason why Windows takes more space than the other OSes).
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bash-4.0$ mkdir tmw
bash-4.0$ for i in `ldd /usr/bin/tmw | awk '{print $3}' | grep -v ld-linux`; do cp $i tmw; done
bash-4.0$ du -sh tmw
16M tmw
Yeah indeed, including all depencies would be very, very hard and make the package soo big...
*hint* *hint*
Really, users who can't compile stuff, doesn't give a Chocolate Cupcake if the binary is 1,4M or 17,4 MB or if the package they are supposed to download is 16 MB bigger.
Regards.
Re: Should we break backward compatibility of the TMW client?
Posted: 15 Oct 2009, 11:17
by Ghezus
John P wrote:It sounds like a necessary evil. Ubuntu people who cannot compile are way too big of a group to just eliminate.
As long as they have the option (download source here, or download full game w/all dependencies here), I am sure most wont mind having all of the dependencies. The population would grow with an up-to-date .deb. Just my two cents, I'm not actually smart enough to do something like this. PS Ubuntu 9.10 is stable release 10/29, so....
People should get the version from the
PlayDeb.net repository, not from the official Ubuntu repository. PlayDeb has a up-to-date version of TMW most of the time.
Re: Should we break backward compatibility of the TMW client?
Posted: 15 Oct 2009, 12:30
by Jaxad0127
Ghezus wrote:John P wrote:It sounds like a necessary evil. Ubuntu people who cannot compile are way too big of a group to just eliminate.
As long as they have the option (download source here, or download full game w/all dependencies here), I am sure most wont mind having all of the dependencies. The population would grow with an up-to-date .deb. Just my two cents, I'm not actually smart enough to do something like this. PS Ubuntu 9.10 is stable release 10/29, so....
People should get the version from the
PlayDeb.net repository, not from the official Ubuntu repository. PlayDeb has a up-to-date version of TMW most of the time.
But not always for their version of Ubuntu.
Re: Should we break backward compatibility of the TMW client?
Posted: 15 Oct 2009, 16:59
by feline monstrosity
Thanks to this thread I'm downloading Fedora. Is it possible for Fedora users to always have an up-to-date version of TMW when it comes out, like Windows users?
Re: Should we break backward compatibility of the TMW client?
Posted: 15 Oct 2009, 17:21
by Jaxad0127
That depends on them. You can always compile it yourself.
Re: Should we break backward compatibility of the TMW client?
Posted: 15 Oct 2009, 17:26
by Platyna
Fedora has a system of updates - they are easy and automagical, in testing repo you usually have even beta releases. I have newest tmw release in stable repo installed. ;-)
Regards.
Re: Should we break backward compatibility of the TMW client?
Posted: 15 Oct 2009, 17:45
by feline monstrosity
Platyna: Without having to compile? I can't compile.
Re: Should we break backward compatibility of the TMW client?
Posted: 15 Oct 2009, 17:49
by Platyna
Yeah without having to compile.
Regards.
Re: Should we break backward compatibility of the TMW client?
Posted: 15 Oct 2009, 18:29
by Kage
it would be funny to see how the ubuntu community reacts to us dropping support for things in their repo
Re: Should we break backward compatibility of the TMW client?
Posted: 15 Oct 2009, 19:05
by feline monstrosity
Will I be able to have the latest TMWServ builds without compiling? Or is that a little too hopeful?
Re: Should we break backward compatibility of the TMW client?
Posted: 15 Oct 2009, 19:12
by Jaxad0127
feline monstrosity wrote:Will I be able to have the latest TMWServ builds without compiling? Or is that a little too hopeful?
You can always use the nightly. We're working on making them one client, remember.
Re: Should we break backward compatibility of the TMW client?
Posted: 17 Oct 2009, 16:07
by Habari
Breaking the backward comp ability will be a necessity sooner or later , TMW has to progress.
it , seems windows users have no problem , its just an ubuntu problem
AND:
1. linux users on the average have more PC knowledge than windows users.
2. Compiling under Linux is far more easy , than under windows.
So sorry , but the game must go on,
Re: Should we break backward compatibility of the TMW client?
Posted: 17 Oct 2009, 16:28
by GARRETTtheGREAT
I was mildly annoyed as an Ubuntu user to see that 0.28 was still in the repo. The documentation on installing TMW from source is excellent, and even though I'm familiar with Ubuntu, I could follow those instructions if I knew nothing about it
Couldn't we also make a small script to do the install? Something with a popup "The Mana World update script needs super user privileges blah blah blah blah" and the user types in the su password instead of terminal stuff would be a major plus.
Heck, if you want, put my phone number in the message that tells them their client can't connect because it's outdated and I'll walk 'em through it