[sldev] Freedesktop.org "games" list (Re: Improvements for the zugaina secondlife gentoo ebuild.)

[Gareth Nelson]

Fair enough, I was under the impression it would be put under games/
in the FreeBSD ports tree.

On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 10:52 AM, Robin Cornelius
<robin.cornelius at gmail.com> wrote:
> Gareth Nelson wrote:
>> One tiny point:
>> Do we really want to encourage SL to be classified in the games
>> category? I don't know about everyone else, but personally I get quite
>> irritated by the description of SL as "just a game". This
>> misunderstanding leads to stupidities such as newbies asking for "Free
>> L$ cheat codes" etc.
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> No probably not, but as i said it my post just because its a games team
> looking after the code in a distro that has NO bearing on were the
> application will end up on a system or in a free desktop category.
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> The games teams on the distros are dealing with a wide variety of code
> bases of often extremely complex applications, that share a lot of
> common factors, opengl, openal, gstreamer etc.
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> Users and especially "the stupid newbies" will not even know that a
> distro's games team had anything to do with it.
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> OpenAL is managed by the games team in Debian, is that a game suddenly?
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