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<H2>The new QuakeForge tree</H2>
<P>The new QuakeForge tree is an effort based on the QuakeWorld
cooked up by a few developers who had all come to the conclusion
that the current tree had some inherent limits we didn't like.
<P>First, the build system. It's not very portable and lacks a key
feature called header dependency. Without them you often times find
yourself needing to recompile the entire project just to test a
little change. I should point out that a compile takes about five
to six minutes on my PIII and most of our developers do not have
that sort of machine for development.
<P>Second, there are tons of bugs in the source. Not just the ones
we're responsible for - those are easy to fix! The ones buried deep
in Id's code, often with two or three layers of workarounds on top
of them to keep the problems from affecting most people in common
situations. We have been adding to the workarounds because we
didn't know the cause of the bug either. And then it hits one of us
what the original problem was. Sometimes trying to fix these
problems the right way in our current tree is very difficult.
<P>Third, the merge. One of our goals from the beginning was to
have a single binary which could act as a client, a server, or both
depending on what the user needed, including for single-player and
co-op games. At the time, merging the two source trees together
seemed like the best plan of attack. It hasn't been, and it adds to
the problem above as well as making bugs caused by us more difficult
to track down.
<H2>Single player support</H2>
<P>No, we're not abandoning it. Far too many people want it,
including many of the project's developers. How we're likely to get
it into QuakeWorld's model is kinda complex. I can explain it most
simply by saying "emulation". Not like what you do to get Mario on
your PC, but rather having the server be smart enough to recognize
the differences between a NetQuake game and a QW game and adjusting
a few things as needed to make it all work.
<P>That sounds like a royal pain in the ass, which is why we didn't
try before. It's actually nowhere near as hard as we thought it
would be. Ender and Tonik have both made major strides in this area
already.
<H2>Mega2k?</H2>
<P>As QSG Standards version 1 call for the features Mega2k needs to
be available, they will be. In fact, I've already implemented them
in the new tree. Later this week I hope to be able to produce
tutorials for how these things were done for people who might
benefit from them.
<H2>QuakeWorld Forever</H2>
<P>Yes, the rumors are true. QuakeWorld Forever and QuakeForge are
merging! The new tree is pivotal in this merge as trying to combine
QuakeWorld Forever's features with the current QuakeForge tree would
set back their development about two months. This is unacceptable
for them and for us. The new tree is right from the beginning
easier for the QWF developers to work with, making this very serious
problem seem almost nonexistant. I'll post more details as soon as
we have them.