Bug 579520

Hi,

Thanks for the report!

Unfortunately freecol-0.9.x needs a few new other java libs which are not yet
packaged. So it will be a while before I can update (as I first need to
package the new deps, and get them reviewed, etc.).

You don't happen to be interested in becoming a Fedora packager, and help out,
do you ?

Regards,

Hans

I'm playing 0.9.4 now, and compared to 0.8.x it's just crazy slow. Unplayably slow, on my Athlon64 w/ 2G. So you may want to hold off on the upgrade.

FTR, it's to 0.9.5 now. Updating summary, and moving to rawhide in light of comment #1. Hans, can you list the missing deps?

Re comment #2 and slowness, 0.9.5 says: "This is a maintenance release with no notable new features.  More memory leaks that caused the game to slow down have been found and fixed, as have a number of annoying bugs."

New dependencies this release are:

commons-cli-1.1.jar -> provided by already packaged jakarta-commons-cli

cortado-fc-1.0.jar -> flumotion cortado video player:
    http://downloads.xiph.org/releases/cortado/
    License OK (player GPL, libs LGPL)
    Does include private (source not jar) copies of jogg and jvorbis, with
    some changes. Need to check versus original. Note that jogg nor jvorbis
    are currently packaged for Fedora and neither have seen any action in a long
    while upstream, we may just as well use the cortado bundled version whcih
    does get regular new releases as new upstream for these, depending on the
    changes (ie are there api changes)?

miglayout-3.7-swing.jar:
    http://www.miglayout.com/
    License OK, dual licensed GPL and BSD
    Does not seem to have any special problems, just needs to be
    packaged up


Also, even the current version in Fedora is not playing back some sounds as
we do not support playing back ogg files under java in Fedora. To fix this we would need to package vorbisspi:
http://www.javazoom.net/vorbisspi/vorbisspi.html
License OK: LGPL
This in turn needs: tritonus_share:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/tritonus/
License OK: LGPL, best to package the CVS version!
And, jorbis and jogg, where we could use the cortado bundled versions
or package them standalone and make cortado use the standalone version. As a
stop gap measure we could simply convert the oggs to wavs (adding 35 MB to the package's installed size).

Note to self, Debian has been seeing some crashes with the freecol and
openjdk, using "-Xincgc" as extra argument to the java invocation fixes these
and leads to a nice speedup.

Good news I just found out that miglayout was already submitted for package review and I've just reviewed it, see bug 644135.

Hi,

More good news, I've packaged jorbis (the copy included with cortado is ancient, goes to show how good embedded copies are) and cortado, and prepared a freecol update to 0.9.5 including a fix for the slowness issue.

Some help with the reviews for the 2 deps would be appreciated:
Bug 649777 - Review Request: jorbis - Pure Java Ogg Vorbis Decoder
Bug 649781 - Review Request: cortado - Java media framework

Thanks,

Hans

jorbis and cortado have been reviewed and build for rawhide. So now I've been able to finally update freecol to 0.9.5 for rawhide, closing this bug.

*** Bug 657706 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

0.9.5 is much faster. The game is currently playable. Thanks!

After consultation with upstream I've decided to push 0.99.5 to F-14 too. Expect an update soon.

freecol-0.9.5-1.fc14 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 14.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/freecol-0.9.5-1.fc14

freecol-0.9.5-1.fc14 has been pushed to the Fedora 14 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.