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Minetest core is a volunteer effort, but the barrier to entry is too high. In a series of changes meant to lower that, we're going to hold an event meant to help people understand the engine: A documentation sprint! What: Documentation sprint for Minetest Where: #minetest-doc on Freenode and http://...

"best" meaning....?

I mean, it's nice, and it could be useful, but it doesn't seem to have any API, it's (apparently) a totally new system, and from what I can tell it's not free software. One of the better options still seems to be a debian-style package manager and repository.

RAPHAEL, I think it's feasible to build a system that will work with both platforms, probably something built in C++ that just fetches packages and reads them locally. It shouldn't be too difficult to then let that be tied into from a main menu mod.

OK, this is turning into the wrong set of questions. If you'd like to chime in on package management, here are the few things I really need: 1. Are there existing systems we can use? 2. Would those systems work for all target platforms? 3. Would a self-rolled system work best for everyone? 4. Would ...

mauvebic, CC-ND and CC-NC are non-free, because they restrict the user from doing something. *GPL* are non-free in a sense, but only restrict people who potentially want to deny freedoms to others. If I have anything to say about it, NC and ND won't be allowed any more than a binary-only mod.

mauvebic, if you want to develop and release non-free mods, it's up to you to distribute them, I'm not going to help you.

OK, I'm glad that there's something like an in-game package manager already. I guess we just need to change it, or rewrite it, to our purposes. Before that, it's important to write a good backend for the thing. This should almost certainly be included in minetest core, and should be built by default...

"Someone": Me! It wasn't a year ago, but here: http://minetest.net/forum/viewtopic.php?id=1928 I think some of the suggestions you've brought up are good, but it seems like we can do a bit better than using forums for package maintenance, bug reports, etc.. Setting up a Bugzilla instance, ...

All right, it's high time we talked about this as a community. 1. It's 2012, why am I downloading mods from forum post attachments and shitty filesharing sites? 2. It's 2012, why are the packages I'm installing that support this game depending only on one or two mods, with dependency trees that look...

Thanks, will look into it soon. Sorry it caused you trouble!

I'm not yet ready to release a download, but I will work on it after I write and release the factory mod as well. Until then, your best bet is to A) download each mod separately or B) download it using git. I've given ample directions for B, and I can add the instructions for A later. If you want to...

Note, some updates went through and now the transactors should work properly with furnaces and in all directions. I'll test more fully in the future, too, as well as come up with some more generic interfaces for the repetitive stuff (so expect to see a commit with -200 +20 or something insane).

Thanks!

Updating the post for the latest versions.

Happy Sunday to all y'all! Here's a pack I've just completed. There are a few things about setting it up, then I'll jump into actually playing with it. To download, you have two options: Tarballs, or git. For the git method , cd into wherever you want to put the mods (either a game/*/mods directory ...

https://gitorious.org/marktraceur-minetest-mods/rubber

There it is! In all its glory.

Note that it's licensed under GPL, so please avoid posting it in this topic unless you note its license properly. Thanks!

On second thought, I think I'll pull it out myself. Stand by.

Is it possible to extract one or two of these features from the mods and put them into individual mods for greater flexibility? In particular I'd like rubber to be a separate mod, to facilitate using that but nothing else.

Thanks!

A poignant argument as always, j4i.

Realism may be served by an ABM that fires and (very rarely) turns coal at <-500 into diamonds. Just a thought

All right, next time I have some spare time (also seems like it may be a while), I'll whip something up

In the meantime, anyone else should feel free to hop in, I have no real plans for this now.

cornernote, is there any plan for making more NPCs, or should I dive in? It looks like there's some work on lumberjacks, but it's not clear whether it works. Ping me on IRC (I'm marktraceur), and I may be able to help.

Hi,

Could you please release this mod under an actually free license? I don't mind redistributing under the same terms, so long as there are no other restrictions.

Thanks!

All right, briefly this morning I'd like to ping you all about the Minetest community. It's bad. 1. The community largely doesn't submit C++ code. 2. The community doesn't have any access to the core repository. 3. There are very few resources for new developers. 4. The existing community isn't welc...

I've used

* Geany
* Emacs
* Gedit (for quick hacks)

I'm sorry to hear that--I hope you decide to come back to the land of free software soon.