[Kde-games-devel] [Announce] KSokoban's Port to KDE Frameworks 5 (KF5) is [Mostly] Complete

[Shlomi Fish]

Hi Ian,

On Thu, 24 Dec 2015 16:26:05 +1100
Ian Wadham <iandw.au at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Albert and Shlomi,
> 
> On 21/12/2015, at 5:59 AM, Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> > El Sunday 20 December 2015, a les 16:28:04, Shlomi Fish va escriure:  
> >> I recently mostly finished porting the KSokoban maintenance port on
> >> SourceForge from KDE 4 to KF5 :
> >> 
> >> http://www.shlomifish.org/open-source/projects/ksokoban/  
> > 
> > Why are you using sourceforge instead of KDE infrastructure?  
> 
> Actually KSokoban is in KDE infrastructure.  It was moved into
> "unmaintained" during the transition of KDE Games from KDE 3
> to KDE 4.  It is now at https://quickgit.kde.org/?p=ksokoban.git
> still in its unmaintained state, AFAICT, although Scripty pays it
> a visit once or twice a year.
> 
> Shlomi's version appears to be more advanced, in that it has
> been ported to KDE 4 and Frameworks libraries, but that seems
> to be all.  At a casual reading, it still seems to have the same
> problems that decided us not to port KSokoban to KDE 4, after
> quite a lot of discussion on the KDE Games list.  These were
> some of the reasons:
> 
>   1. Unmaintained (no contact with original author/maintainer).
>   2. Obscure code.  Also rather C-like style.
>   3. Outdated Povray-dependent graphics.
>   4. Beginners' levels lost in an earlier update.
>   5. Weird way of loading and accessing data for levels, by
>       compiling them into the object-code somehow.
>   6. Priority allocation of limited KDE Games developer time
>       given to games that were easier to upgrade (e.g. KAtomic).
> 

This is just to note that I can agree with this criticism. Perhaps I'll work on
tackling one or more items out of your list, and other people are welcome to
contribute as well.

Regards,

	Shlomi Fish

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