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General => General Discussion => Topic started by: Rprp on November 22, 2006, 02:52:13 pm

Title: How to patch?
Post by: Rprp on November 22, 2006, 02:52:13 pm

Hi,

Some seconds ago i downloaded a new patch for my game.qvm file.
But how can i patch it with windows?

I dont have any programs for it :/
Can someone me help plz?

Grtz, Rprp

Title: Re: How to patch?
Post by: rasz_pl on November 22, 2006, 03:14:25 pm

Quote from: "Rprp"

Hi,

Some seconds ago i downloaded a new patch for my game.qvm file.
But how can i patch it with windows?

I dont have any programs for it :/
Can someone me help plz?

Grtz, Rprp

you cant, you can patch source code and then compile it, but I have no idea how to do that under CrapXP

Title: How to patch?
Post by: next_ghost on November 22, 2006, 03:57:35 pm

I know how to patch the source under CrapXP but it sucks hard. Get a real operating system.

Title: How to patch?
Post by: Diggs on November 22, 2006, 05:05:44 pm

Why do so many Linux users have such a lousy attitude about which operating system someone uses?  The OS is just a tool.  You use the one you are most comfortable with.  I've used Microsoft OSs since DOS 3.x days so that is what I am comfortable with.  I'm not a MS fan, in fact just the opposite.  I have tried many Linux flavors, but it seems I have to struggle too much to get things done with Linux.  In fact, two of my machines still have Linux on them.  But I don't diss Linux and I don't see Windows users dissing Linux users about being too cheap to buy a real operating system (sarcasm).  Why do Linux users feel compelled to diss Windows users?  Hmmm....

Also, why do so many in-game names have the Linux distro of the day in them?  You are not your OS.  Get a life and enjoy it.

Diggs

Title: How to patch?
Post by: Caveman on November 22, 2006, 05:09:22 pm

Nice and absolutely useless post. Since you defend MS so much .) why don't you just answer the OP?

Title: How to patch?
Post by: Diggs on November 22, 2006, 05:19:05 pm

????

Defend MS?  Where?  I pointed out the opposite.  Please read carefully.

Answer the question?  It was the previous post that stated they knew how to patch, not me.

And speaking of useless posts - Thank you Caveman for showing us one of yours.

Diggs

Title: How to patch?
Post by: Undeference on November 22, 2006, 05:27:25 pm

My bet with patching the source code would be to use one of the millions of Windows-only "prettified" (and likely non-functionaly) patch equivalents. For compiling, you need MinGW (i.e., not even Windows anymore), I think.

Title: How to patch?
Post by: Neo on November 22, 2006, 05:58:27 pm

Gotta love the smell of ignorant fanbois in the morning.

Title: Re: How to patch?
Post by: Shafe on November 22, 2006, 09:27:50 pm

Did you download a replacement game.qvm  or did you actually download a 'patch' file?  As the answers are siginificantly different.

Quote from: "Rprp"

Hi,

Some seconds ago i downloaded a new patch for my game.qvm file.
But how can i patch it with windows?

I dont have any programs for it :/
Can someone me help plz?

Grtz, Rprp

Title: How to patch?
Post by: kevlarman on November 23, 2006, 04:37:53 am

Quote from: "Diggs"

Why do so many Linux users have such a lousy attitude about which operating system someone uses?  The OS is just a tool.  You use the one you are most comfortable with.  I've used Microsoft OSs since DOS 3.x days so that is what I am comfortable with.  I'm not a MS fan, in fact just the opposite.  I have tried many Linux flavors, but it seems I have to struggle too much to get things done with Linux.  In fact, two of my machines still have Linux on them.  But I don't diss Linux and I don't see Windows users dissing Linux users about being too cheap to buy a real operating system (sarcasm).  Why do Linux users feel compelled to diss Windows users?  Hmmm....

Also, why do so many in-game names have the Linux distro of the day in them?  You are not your OS.  Get a life and enjoy it.

Diggs

way to completely ignore the issue, they weren't insulting windows. they were simply explaining the fact that ioq3 expects to be compiled in a unix-like environment, and that setting up that environment takes more effort than switching to linux (ok, maybe that's a slight exageration, but after talking to a few people who did it, it's much closer to the truth than you would expect). i happen to have both windows and linux installed on my computers, and in the event i need to compile a windows binary (qvms are platform independent), i will develop it on linux, copy the source onto the computer that i've set up to cross compile for windows (i haven't bothered to do this on my laptop yet), and compile the windows binary there. Why go through all that effort? because it would take MUCH more effort to compile it on windows.

Title: How to patch?
Post by: next_ghost on November 23, 2006, 12:36:31 pm

The point of my post is that Windows is not a programmer-friendly operating system (never heard "user-friendly = programmer-hostile (http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/U/user-friendly.html)"?). Tremulous/ioQ3 engine development requires you to do a lot of things you can do in a few seconds in shell (highly advanced command line interface) while you'll spend half an hour doing them in that oh-so-kewl GUI... :roll: No thanks, I'll keep my shell and I suggest everyone who is serious about Tremulous development to get one as soon as possible.