Re: [TuxKart-devel] Re: [Tuxkart-cvs] tuxkart/src Driver.h,1.14,1.15 joystick.h,1.3,1.4 PlayerDriver.cxx,1.12,1.13 sdldrv.cxx,1.16,1.17 sdldrv.h,1.6,1.7

[Steve B. <sjb...@ai...>]

James Gregory wrote:

> Then on the game's download page you could have both TuxKart 0.5 (which
> would be TuxKart 0.4 but with the extra tracks etc from GOTM, plus
> anything else you might want to keep) and then below that also TuxKart
> GOTM 0.1 (which would be from the branch with SDL).
> 
> You can then be as disparaging as you like about the GOTM version on the
> page (this has huge amounts of dependencies so don't tell me if it
> doesn't compile, all requests for support will be ignored, etc), but at
> least then people have the choice.

Do you maintain any projects of your own?

I maintain several...and have done so for many years.

Unless you make things *extremely* simple then any game of any kind of
complexity at all will rapidly result in you getting 20 emails a day
from people who are having problems with it.

It's bad enough helping people just to get OpenGL running - with
PLIB and Tuxkart.  Adding more libraries to the mix (especially SDL
which is the WORST culprit in this regard) just makes things exponentially
harder to maintain.

Unless you've done this, you have no comprehension of how much hassle
it is.

So - keep things SIMPLE.  Definitely there won't be two versions maintained
by me.  Leaving the GoTM 'version' under CVS is a given - that's what version
control is for.  But having two versions for Joe Public to download?  No way!

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