[cod] COD:WaW - Ryan status update?

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The reason is, Ryan don't own the code, and Ryan is not an ATVI 
employee. So they need to test the conformity of every release, just 
like any industrial company does with any subcontracted work.

You don't see it, but every point release in a cod game have to pass 
through QA, but as it stays internal, you don't hear about it. The major 
problem is, they give the code far too late to hope any day-to-day 
release between win and *NIX. Even if Ryan works quickly, the bins have 
to go back to labs before being put under the lights.

So with wine emulating windows "engine" in order to run windows 
binaries, you don't have this kind of latency due to porting/validating. 
But we don't have to consider it natural that a company "seriously" 
announcing a (limited) linux support keep on lying on tha "day-to-day" 
availability, and let hundreds of hosters (pros or amateurs) use what I 
consider a nasty trick to give people the right to play where they want.

As far as I know, they're still working on 1.2 win-patch release, I 
think you can consider Ryan's work on 1.1 as dead, as they will give him 
the stuff when it is finished.

James Landi a écrit :
> Wolfie - Cybernetic wrote:
>>
>> Sorry, this may sound like a daft question, but it’s something that’s 
>> always puzzled me.
>>
>> Why do the linux binaries need to go through any QA or have 
>> permission from the development company?
>>
>> I mean what is the difference between someone like Ryan making 
>> binaries and releasing them to what people are doing with wine?
>>
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> Note that Ryan is hired by Activision and many other game companies to 
> port their files to Linux He does not do this for free or as a hobby.
>
> -Jim Landi
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