Re: [TuxKart-devel] Slowness - really related with Karts?

[Ingo R. <gr...@gm...>]

Ricardo Cruz <ri...@ae...> writes:

>  Please, stop counter arguing the use of more dependencies. Even if
> it is better for the user, Steve, the maintainer, already stated
> that he have already experienced with that and it is a pain in the
> ass to maintain. So, back off and stop bitching about this.

If Steve doesn't want his mailbox filled with support mails there are
some simple countermessures:

 - remove/hide his email address from Tuxkart game itself and place
   instead tuxkart-users/de...@li... in some good
   visible place, state that all mails should go there and let the
   users help themself

 - create a static linked binary, this is basically the 'support-free'
   solution, if it 'just works' people won't have a reason to complain

 - create a good configure script that states what exactly is missing
   and how to get it

Removing the dependencies itself and creating so a whole lot of
completly unnecessary work is by far the worst solution.

Beside that, as far as I see it plib is actually the part of the
depency tree that is the most 'non-standard', the SDL stuff has been
used by hundreds of other games without problem.

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