> Your plugin code needs to be able to handle an out of date (or even 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.
Then why is something rather important like IPlayerInfoManager in "public" (or even the gamedll)? If the implementation or version is completely arbitrary to anything, shouldn't it be in "dlls" or something mod-dependent?
Anyway, I guess we'll have to work around it. Yay for hacks that should be totally unnecessary :p
~dvander
Alfred Reynolds wrote:
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Your plugin code needs to be able to handle an out of date (or even missing) interface, there are no guarantees that MODs will export the various plugin interfaces.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Thursday, January 27, 2005 8:42 AM To: hlcoders@list.valvesoftware.com Subject: Re: [hlcoders] HL2DM IPlayerInfoManager Out of Date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/
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