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I think the Windows port is good enough to come out of alpha
Posted: Wed Mar 15, 2006 10:51 am
by dajt
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?
Re: I think the Windows port is good enough to come out of a
Posted: Wed Mar 15, 2006 11:02 am
by aegidian
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.
Posted: Wed Mar 15, 2006 12:07 pm
by winston
I'll be interested in seeing what the stats are on berlios now the unwashed masses can install Oolite easily
Posted: Wed Mar 15, 2006 5:17 pm
by dragdasan
you really like this expression...
Posted: Wed Mar 15, 2006 6:23 pm
by JensAyton
He’s an observant man.
Posted: Wed Mar 15, 2006 8:36 pm
by dajt
It must hurt that it was one of unwashed masses that ported the game to GNUstep/SDL for the Linux elite ;)
Posted: Wed Mar 15, 2006 9:20 pm
by winston
Well, you can't be ENTIRELY unwashed then if you worked on the Linux port
Posted: Wed Mar 15, 2006 9:31 pm
by dajt
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!
Posted: Thu Mar 16, 2006 9:53 am
by TGHC
So who is more anti windows, Mac or Linux users?
/me runs like Forest Gump.
Posted: Thu Mar 16, 2006 12:27 pm
by winston
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
Posted: Thu Mar 16, 2006 3:00 pm
by JensAyton
I believe the technical term is “smug gits.”