[Mageia-dev] RFC: Improvements for ioquake3 package and related games

Mon Nov 28 05:47:19 CET 2011

Hi!!
+
+As a FPS game lover, I do play a lot of ioquake3's derived games and
+want to improve the support of them in Mageia. Fedora has an ioquake3
+package which support several Quake III derived games with proprietary
+license data. This are the games supported by this package:
+- Official Quake III demo
+- Urban Terror
+- World Of Padman
+
+The ioquake3 package creates a sub package for ioquake3 and each of
+the supported games, and each of this packages include a script to
+auto-download the proprietary license game data at first run of the
+game using the autodownloader program. When any of the games listed
+above is run, a window will popup displaying the game license and upon
+agreeing on it, the script will download the game data from a
+predefined list of mirrors and install it in the proper place.
+
+Openarena is also supported to be used with ioquake3 engine instead of
+it's own engine, but doesn't auto-download the game content, it will
+use the openarena package in repos (as we currently do) for game data
+files. Also we could use the same auto-download technique with other
+games which already exist on the repos (openarena, alienarena,
+sauerbraten, nexuiz), and save some gigabytes of space on mirrors, or
+add support for other ioquake3-based games like Smokin' Guns (which I
+plan to do soon).
+
+I have already adapted this package to Mageia's policies and works
+fine. The idea would be to replace our current ioquake3 package with
+this new one so we can add support for the previous mentioned games.
+Also it would be a good time to cleanup a little this package and
+remove useless stuff like the old Loki installer ifdef's. I can put
+the src package somewhere before replacing our ioquake3 package if
+someone wants to take a look at it.
+
+WDYT ?
+
+
+-- 
+Juancho
+