> Hi > > Vavoom has already been packaged for a long time in Fedora and uses > autodownloader for enabling users to use the shareware data easily. I > have recently packaged a alternative Doom engine called Chocolate Doom > [2] which is a more conservative port that aims to be more compatible > with mods. I could package other Doom engines out there including > odamex[2], some of them unique. It doesn't make much sense to > duplicate the autodownloader related files. Debian has some guidelines > [3] What would be the best way to handle this? > > References: > > 1. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=730851 > 2. http://odamex.net/ > 3. http://pkg-games.alioth.debian.org/doom-packaging/ Disclaimers, I've not looked at any of this, and I use prboom. :) My memory of autodownloader is that it checks for the existence of some file, if it's there, it does nothing and runs the program, and if not, if downloads it and then runs the program. Could we not do this is such a way that chocolate uses the same directory stucture for the user-specific downloaded files as vavoom does? If not, we could at least use vavoom's structure for the autodownloader portion and symlink from the places chocolate expects. Then, even if the user uses chocolate first, if they run vavoom as is currently packaged, it sees what it wants and Bob's your uncle. Does this make sense? -J > Rahul > _______________________________________________ > games mailing list > games@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/games > -- in your fear, seek only peace in your fear, seek only love -d. bowie _______________________________________________ games mailing list games@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/games
