On Mon 15/06/2020 22:27, Thomas Frohwein wrote:
> Forgot to include the diff; how embarrassing... Now at the bottom.
> 
> On Mon, Jun 15, 2020 at 04:26:15PM -0600, Thomas Frohwein wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Below a diff to update OpenRA to 20200503. The most significant change
> > is the added ability to zoom with the mouse wheel, making these games
> > much more suitable for current high-resolution monitors.
> > 
> > Release announcement at [1], changelog at [2]. Someone with a nice
> > German accent even went through the trouble of creating a video summary
> > of all the important changes to OpenRA [3].
> > 
> > This update requires devel/msbuild which is now available as package for
> > amd64. I have yet to figure out what exactly breaks the build on i386.
> > 
> > I tested singleplayer Red Alert campaigns without finding any problems.
> > Multiplayer can discover games on the servers; so should work, too.
> > 
> > Some more details about the update:
> > - Upstream's approach for geo locating is to fetch a package
> >   IP2LOCATION-LITE-DB1.IPV6.BIN.ZIP from somewhere. Since I don't know
> >   anything about the source of that, I just patched it to continue to
> >   use libmaxminddb as previously, which appears to work judging by
> >   normal function of the discovery of multiplayer games.
> > - Hardcode the game version now - appears to be better potentially for
> >   multiplayer participation than to leave version out like previously.
> > 
> > ok's, comments welcome
> > 
> > [1] https://www.openra.net/news/release-20200503/
> > [2] 
> > https://github.com/OpenRA/OpenRA/wiki/Changelog/61b8f4fd0ee62ef2e82120e3b52480a431ae7f83
> > [3] https://youtu.be/L2sQP3YYBMA
> > 

Diff looks good. ra, cnc and d2k run on amd64. Online gaming seems to
works as well (I was able to join a ra game).

OK bket@

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