Very nice, and very handy. Many thanks.<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 10:10 AM, Ludwig Nussel <<a href="mailto:ludwig.nussel@suse.de">ludwig.nussel@suse.de</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hi,<br>
<br>
Since the ioquake3 web site always offers rotten builds and users<br>
keep asking ...<br>
The openSUSE build service also builds loki-setup based installers<br>
for Linux and an NSIS based one for Windows since some time. They<br>
are produced as some kind of by-product of the regular rpm build so<br>
there is little manual intervention required unless someone breaks<br>
the scripts in SVN. All I need to do is to upload a new tarball<br>
snapshot of ioquake3, fix the version number in the .spec file, wait<br>
for everything to successfully build, download the rpms and extract<br>
the installers with a script. The scripts can be found in<br>
home:lnussel:win32/ioquake3 in the build service for those<br>
interested. I've uploaded the installers to<br>
<a href="ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/lnussel/ioquake3" target="_blank">ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/lnussel/ioquake3</a> for now and intend to<br>
update them every now and then.<br>
<br>
The Windows installer probably needs some love to make it look<br>
better, volunteers?<br>
<br>
Things I know zakk doesn't like:<br>
- the installers are engine only so you need to install baseq3<br>
manually. The data files never change anyways so IMO a separate<br>
installer that installs them as sub component of ioquake3 is the<br>
solution here (same for "standalone" mods).<br>
- there are separate installers for i386 and x86_64. The build<br>
service cannot combine packages from different architectures.<br>
- there are no ppc packages as the build service still does not<br>
offer ppc support (it has been promised for ages that support will<br>
be added). Well, I wonder how many non-geeks (ie those who want<br>
installers) use ppc Linux anyways.<br>
<br>
So, that's it from my side. Any feedback whether this service is<br>
useful and is worth continuing or whether I should better<br>
concentrate on things I'm actually paid for is welcome ;-)<br>
<br>
cu<br>
Ludwig<br>
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