[Kde-games-devel] [Fwd: Re: kbackgammon]

[Alexander Smirnov]

I've got response from Daren, last kbackgamon maintainer.

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: 	Re: kbackgammon
Date: 	Mon, 19 May 2008 10:18:34 -0700
From: 	Daren Sawkey <daren at sawkey.net>
To: 	Alexander Smirnov <alexander.v.smirnov at gmail.com>
References: 	<482F41C3.9030401 at gmail.com>



Hi Alexander,

It's good to hear you are interested in patching and maintaining
kbackgammon. Please go ahead. You are right, I have no time for it now.

I seem to recall the main problem I had was the with fibs. The graphics
needed to be ported to qt4, but somehow that would interfere with fibs.
I don't remember the details. I did write a qt4 based backgammon program
without fibs, but the kdegames crowd wanted to keep kbackgammon with
fibs. Makes it odd that they've gotten rid of kbackgammon entirely now
though...

Good luck with it  --  Daren.

On Sun, 18 May 2008 00:36:19 +0400, "Alexander Smirnov"
<alexander.v.smirnov at gmail.com> said:
> Hello Daren,
> 
> I've been reading kdegames mail list and found that you maintained 
> kbackgammon for some time.
> Unfortunately the game has been removed from kde4 kdegames package - 
> there were no commits and updates for quite a long time :(
> 
> I'd like to get kbackgammong back in kdegames. It's a splendid game, i 
> love it and want it to be improved and developed (at least from time to 
> time :) ). Seems that you have no time for it :(
> 
> If you have no objections, i would like to make several patches for it 
> and bring it back to kde4. In the best case if i get enough time - to 
> maintain it. You have been working on it for quite long time and any 
> help from you is extremely appreciated.
> 
> Looking forward to get in contact with you.
> 
> Thank you,
> -Alexander Smirnov
>