From owner-freebsd-ports Sun Jun 20 22:15:30 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from ymris.ddm.on.ca (p13.radon.sentex.ca [207.245.238.78]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D0D1F14D7A; Sun, 20 Jun 1999 22:15:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dchapes@ddm.on.ca) Received: from squigy.ddm.on.ca (squigy.ddm.on.ca [204.50.152.10]) by ymris.ddm.on.ca (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA20277; Mon, 21 Jun 1999 01:15:23 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from dchapes@squigy.ddm.on.ca) From: Dave Chapeskie Received: (from dchapes@localhost) by squigy.ddm.on.ca (8.9.3/8.8.7) id BAA23968; Mon, 21 Jun 1999 01:15:23 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <19990621011522.36471@ddm.on.ca> Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1999 01:15:22 -0400 To: ports@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: andreas@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Splitting a port into optional pieces... games/crossfire Mail-Followup-To: ports@freebsd.org, andreas@FreeBSD.ORG Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89i Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org [Please CC:dchapes@ddm.on.ca in all replies since I don't currently subscribe to the freebsd-ports mailing list.] I noticed that the games/crossfire port was out of date by several releases so I attempted to update the port to the latest version but I encountered a few issues and I'm unsure of the best way to proceed so I'm sending this e-mail in the hopes that I will be enlightened. :-) The new release has separate tarballs for the server, maps, client, and two separate tarballs for sound. I'd like to break the port up into several pieces but I'm not sure if this is deemed acceptable. What I have in mind is: crossfire: Server and map editor only crossfire-maps: Maps for the server crossfire-client: X11 client crossfire-gtkclient: GTK client crossfire-ausounds: *.au format sounds for client crossfire-sounds: *.raw format sounds for client The server would depend on the maps port and the clients would depend on one of the sound ports if sound was enabled. Does this sound reasonable or is that too many separate ports for one game? The server and maps could be left together but since the maps don't always change as frequently as the server and are distributed as separate tarballs I thought it would make sense to split them up so that someone could pkg_delete and pkg_add a new server without mucking with the maps they have installed (and possibly edited locally with the provided map editor). I think the two clients should be separated into two ports (even though the source is distributed in the same tarball) since the GTK client requires a bunch of GTK ports that not everyone will want to bother with and doing it a port option makes generating the package list annoying. I think the sounds should be separate ports since they change even less frequently than the maps and if both clients are installed the ports dependency checks makes sure they share the sound files and a pkg_delete of one client won't remove the sound files the other client still needs. By the way, the two different sets of sounds (*.au and *.raw formats) are there because they have an old and a new sound system. The new system has a separate sound server that mixes sounds together etc but it apparently doesn't work as well with certain sound hardware. -- Dave Chapeskie, DDM Consulting To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message