Re: [TuxKart-devel] A small tought about diferences in tuxkart and supertuxkart design..

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

Caleb Sawtell wrote:

>>I remember once that steve barker sayd that in tuxkart people should spend
>>almost all the time driving.

Do you mean me?  Steve Baker?

If so, I don't recall ever saying that.

>>If anybody is listening, specially steve barker since tuxkart is his
>>project, I pretty much would just want to know that if someone works in
>>tuxkart and someone else works in supertuxkart in the end they will be
>>pretty much be the same thing just with minimal differences that nobody
>>cares and when someone asks which one is better instead of saying   "if you
>>like <insert type of game> more you should choose tuxkart but if you like
>><insert type of game here> more you should choose supertuxkart", they say
>>"well.. emm.. I dunno they are almost the same it's just matter of
>>preference...".

I didn't choose to make the supertuxkart/tuxkart split.

All I wanted was for the public distribution of TuxKart to actually *WORK*
and be portable and easy to maintain.

I demanded of the team that tore Tuxkart apart that they finish making it
work before I'd sanction another public release.  When they stopped working
on it (there had been no check-ins for months) and the project wouldn't even
compile (at least not on my computer), I didn't have time to start fixing
up all of the chaos that was left behind.

Left with a situation where the current CVS wouldn't compile on most Linux
distro's and when it did, it was full of bugs - and I had pressures at work
and commitments to other project - so I had no time to get in and fix stuff
myself, I had no choice but to say that there could be no further public
releases unless I backed out most (or perhaps all) of the changes they'd
made.

This provoked the project fork - I have not been following events since then.

Project forks are generally evil - but I can understand why they did that
and have not created a fuss over it.

If you wish to pick up supertuxkart and make it different/better/whatever,
that's a good thing and I wish you luck with it.

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