On Tue, 2012-10-02 at 15:14 +0200, Fabian Greffrath wrote: > this was in February. Has this turned out any good? I'd like to see > funguloids revived in Debian and got the current package to work with > a handfull of patches and the mpak.py script from opensuse. > > So how should we proceed?
So, the mpak stuff is basically like a proprietary archive file format, like zip/tar. Inside it I discovered a bunch of files, including some XML that was precompiled into a specific format with Ogre tools. Basically it wasn't in any sane format for modification. The plan was to ditch it completely. So I've been working on a script to take the source and binary tarballs, unpack them and the mpak files, strip out non-free bits, prebuilt or generated stuff and embedded code/data copies, then import the result into git. Then I noticed the DirectDraw surface files and that there was no way to generate them in Debian, so that was a blocker for a while, but is resolved now. Then there are all the usual source issues with the graphics and sound; an unknown font was used for the menu, the Photoshop files were lost, the Cubase audio mixing data was lost. At this point I got a bit de-motivated and slack, moved on to other things. So we have to treat the pre-rendered files as "source", replace them where possible over time and live with them until then. If you would like to join upstream, then I will try to fix the remaining issues in the tar2git script (which are because upstream developed Windows and Linux versions separately) and push to git. After that the Arch, Debian, Maemo and Mandriva patches can be merged, the code adapted to not using the mpak format and a new release made. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
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