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bad readability for people who... well, don't speak german ;)

git tags make it easy to create releases on which distributors can rely on since creating a tarball from master is unreliable as well as directly pulling from git

This causes subtle bugs on ARM minicomputers and AmigaOS 4.

C++ doesn't define whether char is signed or unsigned, but Lix silently relies on signedness.

• The lix' walking direction is saved as +1 or -1 in a char.
• Their current animation frame is a char, and takes the temporary value -1 between assignment and first frame of the new animation. Fun manifestation of this bug: The cuber generates a colum of white terrain over its cube.
• The structs that we serialize for networking have char variables. Their bits are correctly htonl'd and ntohl'd, but they're interpreted differently.

I should go through the source, keep all unsigned char as they are, but turn all char into signed char.

Workaround: Edit the makefile build command, give g++ the switch -fsigned-char.

as you said... you already know this

I'm looking at packaging Lix for Mageia, and I would like to be able to install it system-wide following the FHS and policies in Linux distributions.

Basically this would require to make it possible to:

• install the binaries in $(prefix)/games or $(prefix)/bin
• install the game data in $(prefix)/share/games/lix or $(prefix)/share/lix
  $(prefix) being by default /usr/local but with a possibility to override it (for distro packaging, we use /usr).

Providing install instructions in the Makefile would be a nice feature too, but this would come in a second time, since some code tweaking would be required first to be able to support different rootpaths than "./" and "../". Ideally the rootpath would be retrieved from the "make" call (e.g. "make PREFIX=/usr LIX_DATA_DIR=share/games/lix") and hardcoded in src/other/globals.cpp.

Support for additional rootpaths for e.g. user-made content and replays would be nice too (preferably in $XDG_DATA_HOME/lix i.e. ~/.local/share/lix).

what is the license of this game, both source-code and artwork?

Can't be packaged in any distribution without this information.