[crossfire] building very old versions

Matthew Giassa matthew at giassa.net
Sat Apr 30 12:17:43 CDT 2016


Wow, that brings me back.

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On 04/30/16 09:59, John Floren wrote:
> I got the client and server building from these with very little
> hacking. I had to prevent it from building crossedit, which was having
> some issues with includes.
>
> Here's it running (the window is X-forwarded from my Linux box):
> http://i.imgur.com/n9PNRgG.png
>
> Are there any copyright/licensing issues with me just bundling up
> these slightly modified versions and sticking them up to download
> somewhere?
>
> john
>
> On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 2:29 PM, Neil Muller
> <drnlmuller+crossfire at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 29 April 2016 at 21:15, Rick Tanner <rick at tanners.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> Sounds like you are looking for source code that was in place before
>>> Crossfire started to use revision control (originally cvs from 1999 to
>>> 2006, now svn.) So, it is not possible to cvs/svn revert back to the XPM
>>> days.
>>>
>>> Looking back at my collected archive or releases, I don't have anything
>>> before 0.97.0 -- it was before I became involved with the project.
>>>
>>> http://crossfire.real-time.com/download/archive/
>>>
>>
>> You can dig up crossfire 0.95 out of the debian archive -
>> http://archive.debian.org/debian/dists/Debian-2.1/main/source/games/ - which
>> is a bit before the start of the sourceforge CVS history.
>>
>> I'm under the impression that crossfire made it into the FreeBSD releases
>> before it got picked up by most of the Linux distributions, so it may be
>> possible to pull older versions out of those archives if one is so inclined.
>>
>> --
>> Neil Muller
>> drnlmuller at gmail.com
>>
>> I've got a gmail account. Why haven't I become cool?
>>
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