Should we support the Nehahra mod? Forest is reasonably convinced that the crap can be isolated so that it does not overly pollute the rest of the codebase.
For the uninformed, Nehahra was one of the first large projects using the
newly released Quake source. It was implemented extremely hackishly.
It's basically not very good overall. The way they do everything is
totally different than the way everyone else does it, but because of
Ender's involvement, it was declared to be "standard". Nobody but Forest
actually implements that stuff anymore.
Here's a bit of irc log (edited for length) which should help you decide:
<Knghtbrd> makes it hard to justify bothering to support it in Twilight
<LordHavoc> and as you might have noticed, I haven't been prodding you to
do so :)
<LordHavoc> even though there seem to be 2 or 3 Nehahra episodes in
development
<Knghtbrd> then perhaps it is worth supporting
<Knghtbrd> nq/nehahra.c perhaps? ;)
<LordHavoc> there was a nehahra.c in neh_gl
<Knghtbrd> would it all fit into one file conveniently
<Knghtbrd> ?
<LordHavoc> it was the most horrific mess of random code from around the
engine that I have seen yet in a quake engine
<LordHavoc> nope, as I just explained :)
<LordHavoc> Nehahra has many little bits and pieces scattered around
<Knghtbrd> src/nehahra/
<LordHavoc> heheh
<Knghtbrd> src/nehahra/cl_weirdshit.c
<Knghtbrd> src/nehahra/gl_weirdshit.c
<LordHavoc> hahah
<LordHavoc> great naming
<LordHavoc> go for it, just so people can see those names :)
<Knghtbrd> Don't tempt me.
<LordHavoc> Knghtbrd: I think that even Mindcrime would like that name
<Knghtbrd> You realize you have just about made up my mind that we WILL
support Nehahra.
<Knghtbrd> ...just so we can do that.
<LordHavoc> heheh
Of course, I can't decide something like that on my own. What say you?
Should we support Nehahra for completeness? Should we isolate that
support from the rest of the code where possible for the sake of keeping
the rest of the code clean of things like the protocol changes Forest
affectionately refers to as "dumb and dumber"? And lastly, should we name
these seggregated files appropriately? ;)
(I may regret this when I'm not bleary-eyed tired, but I doubt it..)
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Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Free software developer
<Flood> netgod: I also have a "Evil Inside" T-shirt (w/ Intel logo).. on
the back it states: "When the rapture comes, will you have root?"
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