Bug 767805 - Replace Glest with Megaglest
Summary: Replace Glest with Megaglest
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Status: CLOSED NEXTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: glest
Version: rawhide
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Bruno Wolff III
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2011-12-14 22:15 UTC by Brandon
Modified: 2012-11-20 21:34 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2012-11-20 21:34:49 UTC
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Description Brandon 2011-12-14 22:15:17 UTC
Description of problem:
Glest is a dead project

The development on Glest has ceased some 3 years ago, and MegaGlest, which is a fork of Glest, continues to be developed and has fixed some bugs in Glest and added many new features.

Packages built for Megaglest
http://glest.org/glest_board/index.php?topic=7214.0


build script
https://megaglest.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/megaglest/trunk/mk/

megaglest-rpm-meta.tar.bz2 contains the .spec file which may need to be modifed as the versions change in megaglest

Comment 1 Brandon 2011-12-14 22:18:45 UTC
Personally, I really like this game, many distro have started to replace glest with it.  I think adding it to fedora would make the distribution more appealing.

Comment 2 Bruno Wolff III 2011-12-17 17:09:14 UTC
I agree that megaglest would be a nice addition to Fedora. And I agree that once megaglest is in Fedora, there isn't much reason to keep glest and that dropping it going forward (but not from released versions of Fedora) makes sense.
However this isn't really a bug for glest. This needs to be added as a new package and go through a review.
Since you mentioned that one of the upstream maintainers might be interested in packaging it (in an outside email message), I think waiting to see if he follows through on that is the best short term action.

Comment 3 Bruno Wolff III 2012-11-20 21:34:49 UTC
megaglest has been packaged for Fedora. glest has been dropped from recent versions of Fedora.


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