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

[Fredriksson, Andreas]

Steve,

merging the two codebases have made it obvious to us what the differences
have been and why things have behaved strangely. It's really the way to
go since we now don't have to wait for bugfixes and features to make their
way into the linux codebase.

What I can tell you right now is that after the upcoming patch has been
delivered you will see a steady stream of updates much like "it use to be".

Regards,
Andreas

-----Original Message-----
From: Killing
To: bf1942 at icculus.org
Sent: 4/9/2003 10:53 AM
Subject: Re: [bf1942] Linux server status report 2003-04-09

I'm sure most of us would prefer to see more 1.31 patches. 99%
of us understand that its beta and treat it as such so QA is not so
much an issue as it would be for a full release. What we are
interested in is getting something that's useable and IMO the current
version isn't. So if its possible can we go back to how ryan handled
things i.e. once progress has been made let us have it. There is no
real point in synchronising the win32 and linux releases when the linux
one needs so much more work.

Oh and can we get all the config improvements into the win32 server.
1. command line options for all server configs: server config, autoexec
and map list.
2. config options for the query port, ase, lan and gamespy.

    Regards
    Steve
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Fredriksson, Andreas" <andreas.fredriksson at dice.se>
To: <bf1942 at icculus.org>
Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2003 8:51 AM
Subject: [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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