On Mon, 2010-03-29 at 09:35 -0700, Jeremy Huddleston wrote: > On Mar 29, 2010, at 08:23, Adam Jackson wrote: > > We could pretty easily bump DGA to major version 3, encode events with > > GE, and require newer client-side libs that translate back for ABI. > > After all, if you're using it _and_ you've updated your server, you can > > update your client libs too. It'd be slightly gross - for maximal ABI > > compat the client libs would want to lie about the protocol major > > version number, in case old games check for == 2 - but then DGA is > > pretty gross all around. > > What's keeping DGA on life-support these days? I thought there was > one last reason to keep it around, and XI2 was supposed to be the one > to put the nail in that puppy's coffin. Wouldn't it just be easier to > punt DGA in 1.9?
A bunch of old apps use it for input events. You'd like to keep _something_ around for that. I'd be pretty sad if my Quake3 binaries stopped working. Faking it in the client-side library is certainly one way of doing it. - ajax
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