There needs to be a HL2DM release for it to export these new interfaces (so far only CS:S has had such a release). Hopefully sometime in February.
Your plugin code needs to be able to handle an out of date (or even missing) interface, there are no guarantees that MODs will export the various plugin interfaces. - Alfred ----Original Message---- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Anderson Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2005 8:42 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [hlcoders] HL2DM IPlayerInfoManager Out of Date > I don't like bumping threads but this issue is rather important, as > if Valve isn't even going to comply with their own API then > server-plugins are essentially doomed. > > Hopefully someone can make a comment before this gets overrun with > another 40 irrelevant posts of "Steam: Technology Failure". > > Thanks, > ~dvander > > David Anderson wrote: > > From what I've seen, it seems IPlayerInfoManager on HL2DM is still > > at version 001 while IPlayerInfoManager on CS:S is at version 002. > > > > While all Valve needs to do is recompile, the fact that the version > > number and interface name are in one string make it very difficult > > for good backward compatibility. Assuming they were separated, and > > Valve simply added new functions to the end of the vtable, it > > wouldn't be a problem. But that's not going to happen. > > > > What's the solution to this? Are we going to have to do ugly hacks > > to check the name's last three digits from X to 001 until we get a > > valid interface pointer? Other than that, I see nasty > > compatibility problems in the future. > > > > Thanks for any help, > > > > -----David "BAILOPAN" Anderson > > http://www.sourcemod.net/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list > > archives, please visit: > > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list > archives, please visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders
