[bf1942] Linux server status report 2003-04-09

[Maarten De Meyer]

It's not hard to read between the lines, and it says : "Don't get you
hopes up on any decent server before the 1.4 patch, because we've got a
deadline for that."

Well, if that's the case, care to share your "tight schedule" with us
and give us at least a vague, unofficial ETA (not as vague as "sooner
than you think" though, although we do know that's at least a month in
the meantime) on the 1.4 patch?

I really want to know if it's time to start looking for alternatives for
this linux server, because frankly, BF is 8 months old and most ISP's
and clanserverproviders still have a problem with BF.

Regards,

Maarten De Meyer



-----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
Van: Fredriksson, Andreas [mailto:andreas.fredriksson at dice.se] 
Verzonden: Wednesday, April 09, 2003 9:52 AM
Aan: 'bf1942 at icculus.org'
Onderwerp: [bf1942] Linux server status report 2003-04-09


Hi people,
I'm back at work now and atleast the fever is gone..

I haven't been working full-time with the linux port since I'm doing
other
things
here as well, but here's a short rundown of what has happened.

- I have evaluated moving to completely static linkage of the server
binary
for
  many reasons, but chiefly:
  1) DICE only needs to distribute and test for bugs in one version
  2) It allows almost everyone (kernel issues aside) to run the binary

  I think this makes sense given that most people will have a fairly new
kernel,
  2.4.x atleast.

- There is still no decision from management on releasing an updated
1.31
for Linux,
  mostly because we are on a tight scheduele with our updates. I feel
this
is a
  question of quality assurance as well; we wouldn't have enough time to
test such
  a 1.31 patch enough to be able to deliver the quality we are aiming
for.

- Test are proceeding as outlined in my earlier status report mail, and
we
are fixing
  bugs mostly due to the merging of Ryan's code and our new stuff as we
find
them.

Regards,
Andreas Fredriksson
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Phone: +46 8 545 18 494
Fax: +46-8-545 18 497
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