Updating wfut package

[Michael Thomas]

Alexey Torkhov wrote:
> Michael Thomas wrote:
>> Alexey Torkhov wrote:
>>> I was asking Wart to update java wfut package to new native libwfut: 
>>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=446837
>>> But he is not reachable or too busy to look at it now.
>>>
>>> The only package that has dependency on wfut is sear (WorldForge 
>>> client). It hadn't updated for some time, but CVS versions of it are 
>>> using libwfut.
>>>
>>> Could somebody take a look on it and say what is needed to get this 
>>> package updated?
>>
>> Sorry I've been a bit mute lately.  Staffing changes at work have 
>> decreased the amount of time I've been able to devote to Fedora lately.
>>
>> The current wfut package provides a single binary executable that is 
>> used by sear.  If I recall correctly, the new upstream wfut package 
>> provides a shared library that is linked into applications like ember 
>> and the CVS version of sear.  These two packages should be able to be
>> installed at the same time with no conflicts.
> The conflict is in that wfut binary. libwfut also providing it as a 
> simple command line client. However, it is possible to rename it in to, 
> say, 'wfut-cmd' or strip it.

Does either ember, or sear CVS, use the new wfut CLT?  If not, then we 
could remove it from the new libwfut package, and reintroduce it once 
sear releases a new version that allows us to obsolete the old wfut package.

Alternately, will the current sear release work using the new wfut CLT, 
or is the command line syntax different between the two wfut 
implementations?

--Wart