Hi makes sense, I myself completely lost interest about barony since fixes had been ignored. Regards.
On Mon, 23 Oct 2023 at 00:33, Thomas Frohwein <tfrohw...@fastmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm reaching out after trying to update barony unsuccessfully. First > some background: Barony is a commercial game by TurningWheel with > "open-source" engine development. "open-source" with quotation marks > because the primary audio backend has been FMOD, which is a closed- > source proprietary audio library. What makes this one a particularly > painful port, to me at least, is the fact that updates to the game > data, as downloaded from the digital storefronts depend on having a > matching version of the game binaries. Multiple times in the past and > present there has been a prolonged mismatch, meaning that the version > accessible on the digital storefront isn't runnable at all with our > port. > > At this moment, this problem is particularly clear as can be seen in > the github issue from 1 year ago [1]. Since (before) then, the OpenAL > audio backend has been broken, with a comment [2] indicating that > upstream is well aware of the broken implementation, but no fix or even > response in sight. > > I tested the current downloadable version (4.1) with our 3.3.7 port. As > expected, it was not possible to run it, similar to when we had prior > version desyncs: > > $ barony -datadir=$HOME/games/barony/data/noarch/game > [19-23-31] Data path is /home/thfr/games/barony/data/noarch/game > [19-23-31] Output path is /home/thfr/.barony > Caught segfault at address 0x0 > > I think the usefulness of the port is very low, given that for a > significant portion over time the port is not in sync with the > data that can be obtained, and maintenance seems quite hard especially > with upstream showing little interest in keeping OpenAL as a viable > backend at all. That's why I want to raise the question if it may be > best to retire this port? > > [1] https://github.com/TurningWheel/Barony/issues/691 > [2] > https://github.com/TurningWheel/Barony/blob/master/src/init_game.cpp#L534 >
