[OLPC-Games] Olpcgames breakage and request for volunteers

[Noah Kantrowitz]

This is already done, and the package is accepted. Just need to find a
free chunk of time to push a build to Fedora-land.

--Noah

Lincoln Quirk wrote:
> Folks,
>
> There's been breakage in the olpcgames wrapper. I'm not sure exactly
> which build it stopped working in, but existing games won't work on the
> new development builds. The reason is a change in the Sugar API on which
> olpcgames depended (removing the 'units' module on 2007-07-31).
>
> I've committed a new version of olpcgames, and to get it working, your
> activity can use this.
>
> However: I'd like to take this opportunity to wean people off the
> embedded 'olpcgames' package into a system-wide package, so that we can
> deal with problems like this better in the future. (Instead of having to
> change every game that uses olpcgames, we can just update the system
> package.) 
>
> To do this, I primarily need a volunteer to maintain the olpcgames
> package as a Fedora package. Preferably someone who has Fedora packaging
> experience. I am not doing it myself because I am heading back to school
> in a few days and I can't commit to the time it will take (I am not a
> Fedora developer, so there's a lot of process involved for me). I think
> Noah also said he wouldn't be able to do it for similar reasons.
>
> Once it is packaged, it can go into builds. Once it's in builds, Pygame
> activity developers can remove the 'olpcgames' subdirectory of their
> bundle entirely; the system installed version will be found
> automatically.
>
> The latest version of olpcgames can be found in the git repository
> 'projects/games-misc' at dev.laptop.org, under the subdirectory
> 'olpcgames-src'.
>
> So, any volunteers? 
>
> Lincoln
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