[Kde-games-devel] Re: Re: REKO cardsets for KDE cardgames?

[Neil Stevens]

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On Friday June 06, 2003 08:56, Henry W. Miller wrote:
> On Fri, 6 Jun 2003, Neil Stevens wrote:
> > On Friday June 06, 2003 06:42, Henry W. Miller wrote:
> > > My vote is to have KDE directly read this format, and convert it to
> > > PNG (or whatever) internally.
> >
> > It can't be done, at least not usefully.  We have to keep the data
> > file installations compatible with previous versions.  If you
> > mid-stream decide to install decks of a new format, the new decks
> > aren't going to work with existing apps.
>
> Kword reads many different document formats, and they ad new ones all
> the time.  Why can't games do the same thing.   I'm not proposing
> getting rid of the current deck format, just adding a new one.   Ideally
> it would be an optional plugin.

We could, but it wouldn't do us any good.  I'd like to see any new decks 
usable with existing games.  So we might as well convert them all to one 
format.  That has the added benefit of making it easier for game authors 
to use the standard decks, if the decks are all in the same format.

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Neil Stevens - neil at qualityassistant.com
"The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's throat, for which the
sheep thanks the shepherd as a liberator, while the wolf denounces him
for the same act as the destroyer of liberty." -- Abraham Lincoln
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