I think the Windows port is good enough to come out of alpha

Post by **dajt** » Wed Mar 15, 2006 10:51 am

Hi,

I've been giving the Windows port a pretty solid go over the last few days and it has not misbehaved at all.

A dev env can now be set up with a few software installations and an unzip, and the makefile now supports Win32 without modification. I think anyone who knows enough to actually work on the game should be able to get compiling without problems in less than an hour.

Nic has given us a structure for creating both full installers and update installers.

All this makes me think it is time for the Windows port to come out of alpha.

What do you think?

aegidian · Post by **aegidian** » Wed Mar 15, 2006 11:02 am

dajt wrote:
All this makes me think it is time for the Windows port to come out of alpha.

I'd be in favour.

ALSO: @dajt: I'm receiving bounces from the bulletin board trying to send you PM notices, could you update your email address, preferences or spamfilters please.

Post by **winston** » Wed Mar 15, 2006 12:07 pm

I'll be interested in seeing what the stats are on berlios now the unwashed masses can install Oolite easily

dragdasan · Post by **dragdasan** » Wed Mar 15, 2006 5:17 pm

unwashed masses

you really like this expression...

JensAyton · Post by **JensAyton** » Wed Mar 15, 2006 6:23 pm

He’s an observant man.

Post by **dajt** » Wed Mar 15, 2006 8:36 pm

It must hurt that it was one of unwashed masses that ported the game to GNUstep/SDL for the Linux elite ;)

Post by **winston** » Wed Mar 15, 2006 9:20 pm

Well, you can't be ENTIRELY unwashed then if you worked on the Linux port

Post by **dajt** » Wed Mar 15, 2006 9:31 pm

winston wrote:
Well, you can't be ENTIRELY unwashed then if you worked on the Linux port :-)

It isn't so much the programmer as GNUstep that stinks on Windows. Although I do work in the mode of just getting things running, assuming you and Giles will clean up afterwards ;)

But I guess it is like a dancing dog... forget the quality, it is the fact it exists at all that should provoke amazement!

TGHC · Post by **TGHC** » Thu Mar 16, 2006 9:53 am

So who is more anti windows, Mac or Linux users?

/me runs like Forest Gump.

Post by **winston** » Thu Mar 16, 2006 12:27 pm

TGHC wrote:
So who is more anti windows, Mac or Linux users?

/me runs like Forest Gump.

I'm both a Mac and Linux user. My laptop is a 12in PowerBook, and my desktop is a 2GHz P4 running Fedora Core 2 (hopefully Fedora Core 5 come the 21st).

We aren't really anti Windows, we're just content in the knowledge of how superior we are

JensAyton · Post by **JensAyton** » Thu Mar 16, 2006 3:00 pm

I believe the technical term is “smug gits.”

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