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  1. I'm re-focusing my attention on client development. I should be more active in managing patches on Berlios and co-ordinating the efforts of the various people that submit patches. I'll probably be posting things such as to-do lists, goals, etc. in the near future.


  2. The only way for each person to perceive a nicely distributed pattern of random events would be for each person to have their own state array that's used for random calculations. This would be:

     

    a) A waste of resources

    :ph34r: Still not very effective

    c) LESS random

    d) really f'ing stupid

     

    The random function is not broken. It's random, not an even distribution. Get over it.


  3. Is any of the libraries GPL and not LGPL? The LGPL allows linking, the GPL does not.

    libSDL - LGPL

    libSDL_net - LGPL

    libcal3d - LGPL

    libogg - "as is"

    libvorbis - BSD

    libopenal - LGPL

    libxml2 - MIT

    I don't see any legal problems in that list. The LGPL does require people be able to replace the library (e.g. to fix a bug), which would normally mean dynamic linking, but having an open cvs also solves this. It doesn't say anything about being able to replace the library without compiling :ph34r:

    Well, I don't see why there would be a problem with including both the static and dynamic versions. Most Loki games I have do this. Of course, I end up using the static version because the libraries they use are ancient now, and I can't recompile it to use newer ones . . .


  4. No comments on this, and not fixed in CVS yet... Did all the programmers leave for christmas holidays?

    Not exactly, I was just away for a few days moving back home for the holidays, getting my computer re-connected at my parents' house, etc.


  5. Because I noticed a similar (but different) effect running fullscreen on Linux: If I open a different window (e.g. firefox (F2)) while playing in fullscreen, and I click around in firefox, EL will still have focus, and I can't type anything into firefox until I turn off fullscreen.

    Would you do me a favor and try my static linux bin, and see if the behavior is the same? Also say what version of SDL you have.


  6. I often update my versions for Linux and BSD on my web site. Actually, the static bin and FreeBSD bin download links on the main download page actually just link to the latest versions on my web site (they really shouldn't be. We should change that for the next release).

     

    http://no-exit.org/el/builds/el.x86.linux.bin

    http://no-exit.org/el/builds/el.x86.linux.static.bin

    http://no-exit.org/el/builds/el.x86.bsd.bin

     

    These are build from vanilla CVS. The static bin has all libraries compiled in except for X11, OpenGL, and your other standard libraries.


  7. Well, I'm not going to say that only one bot can be in Portland, but let's say that you shouldn't be able to see Quartermaster and Nera at the same time, nor be much closer to storage than Nera is. I think Ent said 15 steps away from storage before. Since Portland storage is indoors, pretty much anywhere is OK as long as you're not right outside the building.

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