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<P><FONT SIZE=2>> From: Martin Steiger [<A HREF="mailto:martin@steigi.com">mailto:martin@steigi.com</A>]</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> Subject: AW: [bf1942] BF Viet and BFSMD</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> Sorry to say, but I somehow understand DICE decision, not to </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> go with BFSMD.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>ok, colour me confused again (remember that i am a newbie and definitely not speaking for dice). </FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>has there been some official announcement that dice will not support something or is there just something missing from the current bfv dedicated server that you're interpretting as a tacit announcement? </FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2>a qucick recap of the current state of the source world. the bfv source branched from bf1942 some time around bf1942 1.3. i had worked w/ one of the current dice employees in the past and was brought on about two months ago to do a linux port (this morphed into a dedicated server port since the old win32 server w/ a dx console didn't hold a candle to the bf1942 server). i spent the bulk of my porting time fixing random normal things that one finds in single platform (win32) source bases, and only after this did i start bringing over obvious things from the 1.6 tree (thanks to andreas and joakim). in hindsight, i should have spent more time going through each change list (i wouldn't have wasted a bunch of time independently tracking down bugs in the remote console stuff), but i don't even play the damn game so it wasn't obvious what i should be bringing over (for example, the maplist format change is a useful but non-obvious change from just its descriptions). i've pestered andreas (and the rest of the dice team) a lot already, and they have other shit to do than hold my hand.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2>tell us (i'm going home on the 20th and need to do the death mainline merge in the coming week) what is missing or broken (like the event logging stuff) and at least someone will know about it rather than discovering after the fact that some seemingly innocuous change in the bf1942 server is actually something holding up acceptance of the product</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2>finally, my public face probably hasn't been as supportive as you guys have wanted, and i apologize for that. but i really have trying to make the bfv server what works for the community. my bugs and proclamations from dice are not the same thng.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2>> One good thing is, BF:V </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> is creating a</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> PID file, so stopping (or starting) the server with an </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> external application</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> is a bit easier now... ;)</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>actually, it is even easier (especially if you're using the event logging stuff) if you send the pid a SIGINT) it will attempt to cleanup the world cleanly (as if you typed quit at the console). it currently doesn't handle some of the traditional signals (SIGHUP for restart) but that's easy enough to add.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2>\p</FONT>
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