IRC logs of Freenode #BZFlag for Thursday, 2020-03-19

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ftpdHi.14:37
ftpdIs there .deb for 2.4.18 server-only somewhere?14:37
ftpdCurrently in ubuntu 18.04 there is just Version: 2.4.12-1.14:37
blast0072.4.12 would have been the version available at the time that Ubuntu pulled in packages for 18.0414:38
blast007either build from source or upgrade to a newer Ubuntu14:39
ftpdI can't upgrade now, it's a shared server, so I'm waiting for 20.04 LTS ;-)14:40
blast007it's easy enough to build it from source14:40
ftpdOk, let me grab sources then.14:40
blast007you can even install it to your home directory if you set a prefix via configure14:40
blast007(though you'd still need to have the necessary dependencies installed)14:40
blast007apt-get install automake autoconf g++ libtool make libc-ares-dev libcurl3-dev zlib1g-dev libglm-dev14:41
blast007plus libncurses-dev if you want the fancy bzadmin14:42
ftpdAnd is there a way to build only server?14:42
ftpdI can see now, that configure fails because of no zlib package, and I don't want zlib1g-dev on server ;-)14:42
ftpdAnd all of other graphics stuff.14:42
blast007why don't you want zlib?14:43
blast007zlib is compression, not graphics14:43
ftpdOh. So, my bad.14:43
blast007./autogen.sh && ./configure --disable-client && make14:43
blast007optionally adding this to configure if you want 'make install' to install to your home directory:   --prefix=$HOME\bzbuild14:44
blast007(or put whatever you want there)14:44
ftpdSure, I know how to use --prefix in configure scripts ;-)14:45
blast007k14:46
ftpdblast007: Thanks for your help, I have my server up&running.15:02
ftpdMan, I haven't played bzflag in years! Like 10 years ;-)15:03
blast007:)15:04
blast007I need to get back to working on the 2.4.20 release...15:05
ftpdThanks, time for some fun!15:11
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ZehraSince we will be moving towards official documentation, will we see some maintenance/cleanup done in the forums in the future?23:30
blast007are you talking about some of the stickied threads?23:34
ZehraYes, as well as possibly the slight cleanup of some threads within some of the sub forums.23:40
Zehra(For instance, a few threads in "map releases", not containing a map or being unrelated.)23:41
blast007how would that be related towards official documentation?23:42
ZehraIt's not. At least not directly related or connected...23:44
ZehraBut mostly since the way the data is sorted/provided is a bit "difficult", I sort of envision it being much better sorted/organized.23:45
ZehraThus it becomes official documentation->forums->question on IRC or forums.23:45
blast007I'm unclear what you mean.23:46
ZehraLooking over much of the questions posted on the forums within the recent year or two, a lot end up happening quite "frequently" or rather occur time and time again, seemingly even by long term members.23:47
ZehraDue to this, it appears that the information could be much better sorted and organized, thus increasing efficiency.23:48
ZehraBut a lot of it simply would "not" belong in official documentation, but much rather in an FAQ type of document/article.23:49
blast007we could nicely document everything, and people would still ask questions that the documentation answers.  'Tis a law of the universe.  :)23:49
blast007I'm not going to worry too much about the forum stuff until a lot later.  Bigger priorities.23:51
ZehraOkay, sounds good.23:51
blast007I don't know if we'll always be using phpBB, for instance, so I might end up cleaning up the forums by just mostly starting over. :)23:54
blast007but that's still a ways off23:54

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