my main concern is that i have numerous files in my system dir called deathball.u.bak, deathball.u.bak.bak etc... same with mapfiles i.e Lowcube, and Cube. How about actually renaming them when released? i.e Cube2 Lowcube2, and the same with texture files. Just make an additional package rather than modifying others, it just causes alot of confusion when a new beta is released, ot final and you get mismatches everywhere, esp when you want to watch some old demos. and i'm sure it won't be much of a problem when releasing betas that you name it deathball180503.u with an .int file.. i'm sure an extra 10k won't hurt ppl, even those poor 28.8 users out there
The problem about renaming the .u files is that the code also needs to be changed alot.
For example:
RedPawnClass=Class'deathball.DB_PawnRed'
Needs to be changed to deathball24323525.DB_PawnRed.....
And there is lots of code that asks for that Deathball.u package.
the betas are meant for testing only, and not to be put on a server permanently. Its basically so we can complain before hand so that it isn't released in the actual version.
Well we won't do that, it's a lot of work to rename everything. Rens2Sea already explained. And besides, you ought to know DeathBall is still under development . Be prepared to have to update once in a while.
Once 1.7 is done, I'll have a go at writing a program that can manage different versions of DB
hmm i also have older maps but i didnt rename EVERY single map... only the fantastic ones...
plus: tell me how to join servers which have older versions and those with 1.6 or so... you always need to put the old .u files back into the sys directory or rename them to deathball.u if you changed them dont you?
so its not that clever to change them since 1.6 and 1.5 are .exe files which install automatically... that´s no prob..! perhaps 1min and you got em... dont need to rename lots of .us etc.
if i didn't have a seperate shortcut that used the deathball main screen... i'd just delete deathball.u from my computer... then no matter what server i joined it would be correct... though the slow downloads and servers that dont allow it would suck.
i dont suppose you can do code with a variable like deathball<variable_version>.u so that you could update the version and just rebuild to new filenames, without breaking the code.
my simple version switching scheme is to rename files to deathball.u.17b deathball.u.16 deathball.u.13b etc...
then a batch file that copies deathball.u.16 to overwrite deathball.u the only problem with that is you still have to exit ut2k3 before you do it.
if ut2k3 was just smart enough to dl after a version mismatch i wouldnt have as much of a problem... didn't they learn anything from ut? *cough* "de version mismatch" <= delete de.u and join any server regardless of version.
anyway, i'm done.
if you had that you could just update the version define and everyone could be happy.
but still the maps can be renamed and there can be seperate texture packages?
. Be prepared to have to update once in a while.