[OLPC-Games] Olpcgames breakage and request for volunteers

[Samuel Klein]

Thanks, both of you.  It will be good to have this in the base system.
 It would be good to have a test case in the smoke test that confirms
that the wrapper is working; for this purpose there should really be a
gamelet in the builds that uses it.
    http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Test_Group_Release_Notes

SJ


On 8/25/07, Noah Kantrowitz <kantrn at rpi.edu> wrote:
> 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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