Hello everyone We've been getting some requests to put Wesnoth on this online store/community thing called "Desura" ( http://www.desura.com/ )
It actually looks really cool, and they seem to be supportive of open source. There're a lot of linux games and FOSS games already on there ( http://www.desura.com/groups/linux-gamers/forum/thread/open-source-games-already-in-desura ). The desura client itself is also in the process of going open source ( http://www.desura.com/groups/desura/forum/thread/open-sourcing-desura ). I think it would be a good idea to support this initiative. I am willing to do all the work with getting it on there and maintaining it if this is okay with everyone. I've looked into the technical details involved. They make it sound very automatic (almost too good to be true). Apparently it's as simple as pointing their packaging tool at a directory that contains the program and all necessary data. It will detect the required libraries and take care of making sure those are on users' systems when they download Wesnoth. It also compares this package with previous versions and automatically makes patches so that users won't have to redownload the entire game each time. This is a highly requested feature of Wesnoth, and now we would have it for both Windows and Linux. It lets games have multiple "channels" that users can subscribe to for updates (would work great with our stable/development branch system). I've uploaded their terms here for you to look over: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/20566997/games/wesnoth/desura/terms/Desura%20Publisher%20Terms.doc http://dl.dropbox.com/u/20566997/games/wesnoth/desura/terms/Desura%20Publisher%20Terms.odt There don't appear to be any direct conflicts with the GPL, but Noy is concerned about point 3.1a. It allows Desura to keep Wesnoth in their system even if we stop supporting them. The language is also a bit vague though and might allow them to do other things. I'd like to know what you all think. -Derek Hoagland (aka Gambit) _______________________________________________ Wesnoth-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/wesnoth-dev
