[quake2] Why Icculus?

[Nelson Marques]

Icculus has no problems of hard drive space like sourceforge, last time 
I tryed to update a 200Kb/tgz it had no disk space.

Anyway, Icculus is the gaming turf for OS.



Karen Pouelle wrote:

>>>Couldn't you just use sourceforge or savannah?
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>>It might depend on the license ... SF projects must use one of the OSI
>>approved licenses if I remember correctly.
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>>Also icculus is kinda the place to host if your hosting a port of a
>>commercial game for linux.
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>Sourceforge is rather big and intimidating to me, however it has lots 
>of resources, such as the ole compile farm, 100 MB of space, SQL access,
>all kinds of stuff... Good site!
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>Savannah is mostly GNU-related, but does accept non-GNU projects.
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>The Quake 2 server-side game code that I'm modding was first released under 
>SDK, then later releases under GPL - so I potentially have a choice there...
>But SDK mods seem to just die... OrangeSmoothie's stuff can't be recompiled
>for newer libraries, so they rot away, some very cool ideas lost in time....
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>I've already touched the GPL release code, anyway - the same code that's a
>basis for the icculus.org Quake 2 release.  Additionally, I've been on this
>list for probably two years now and you guys seem very helpful.  Honestly, I
>only half-know what I'm doing.  The ideas are viable, but I'm not proficient
>in C.  You guys identify and patch bugs frequently and with much more skill
>than I can.   
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>I'd never even have started the project in question if it hasn't been gnawing
>on me for the past few years -- why hasn't anyone done this for Q2 yet?  
>I've got an alpha-stable proof-of-concept, some cobbled-together new game
>media, about 10 to 20 maps and the potential to be able to load non-mod maps
>and script in unique game entities.   So... I'll give this a try here at
>icculus.org if you'll give it a try.  Plus I also like the music of Phish.
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>(Starts to go into a jam, then stops abruptly)
>Thanks!
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>Karen
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