[Bug 239785] Review Request: rott - Rise of the Triad

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Summary: Review Request: rott - Rise of the Triad


https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=239785





------- Additional Comments From faucamp at csir.co.za  2007-05-16 09:15 EST -------
(In reply to comment #2)
Ok, it does seem to be a timeout issue combined with my questionable network
connection. Increasing the timeout threshold makes things a bit better, but it
might be a good idea to have some form of "download resume" option (like wget's
-c option) - maybe urllib.urlretrieve() can be replaced with a call to wget? But
this is a discussion for another bugzilla, I think. :-)

As far as reviewing the package goes, a few points:

* The program crashes on startup on my machine (FC6/i386 dual core) if the SRPM
is rebuilt as-is; will attach the output (backtrace) shortly. After removing
$RPM_OPT_FLAGS from the EXTRAFLAGS parameter to make, it builds and runs fine.

my RPM_OPT_FLAGS:
-O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector
--param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -m32 -march=i386 -mtune=generic
-fasynchronous-unwind-tables

* It looks like you are missing some useful %doc entries:
    rott/13todo.txt (highlights some bugs/missing features in port)
    rott/cmdline.txt (provides command line options)
    rott/hacker.txt (useful for creating custom maps)
    rott/wad.txt (useful for creating custom content)

* I have my doubts about the "rott-registered" package: it doesn't feel
"polished", in that it is a standalone installable "game package", yet it does
not create a suitable menu entry, or provide some assistance with actually
getting the game to work (the way rott-shareware does). Also, I'm not too sure
about Fedora's legal view on this (rott-registered) - since you need
proprietary, non-freely downloadable content for it to work. This would be the
case with Quake 3 mentioned in comment #3 above, as well. My personal feeling on
rott-registered is to either polish it up to provide the same level of "user
friendliness" as rott-shareware (and maybe make it Conflict with rott-shareware
if needed), or drop it.

(In reply to comment #3)
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras/SteeringCommittee/Meeting-20070510
As I said above though, I'm not sure about the "registered" stuff, though. Maybe
provide a "codec buddy"-like popup message with 3D Realms's "buy rott" URL?
(they actually still sell it, believe it or not)

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