Plugin source missing

[ProdigySim]

We don't have any plugin source here. Are we planning to find and include it all, or is there something else planned?

[rpdelaney]

As far as I know, Promod distribution packages haven't included plugin sources for a very long time. It is likely that this is a copyright infringement. @Attano has acknowledged the problem and based on how Equilibrium development was done, I think we can be optimistic that this will get corrected over time.

[rpdelaney]

See more comments here: http://www.l4dnation.com/confogl-and-other-configs/features-you-would-like-to-see-in-promod/msg33514/#msg33514

[Attano]

If anyone is willing to help, make a separate issue in this repo with the list of all the plugins that are missing sources.

[rpdelaney]

Not sure if or not. None of the plugins distributed have any sources. Here's a gist with all the plugins included in the most recent "release" of Promod, as of this writing.

https://gist.github.com/rpdelaney/ed818aa7e9111bcf1894

[ProdigySim]

This is github. There is not trolling. Only cold, emotionless verbosity.

[ProdigySim]

I'm also kind of interested if anyone can think of a better plan than including a bunch of source sp files in here. We could do git submodules, or pull the sources from another place at build time, etc.

[rpdelaney]

Git submodules would be ideal. No doubt amateur devs will be mystified by all the "unnecessary" complexity although it should have been done that way from the beginning.

[rpdelaney]

Didn't some of @CanadaRox's stuff have build scripts for the sources? That could be worth looking into, for our own sanity at the very least.

[ProdigySim]

I think the stuff in here is the closest we've had to a major build system like that. The Makefile + clone_repos.sh.

Also that setup was unused, since it was for LGOFNOC-based Confogl3--which nobody has really picked up on using, although I think some tried. My basic plan with that was to try to get all config makers to use one single repo and consolidate plugin versions and stuff--while still keeping their "configs" separate. I stopped work on it though.

[MatthewClair]

My ready-up repo has some a basic Makefile: https://github.com/CanadaRox/l4d2readyup/blob/master/Makefile

[Attano]

None of the plugins distributed have any sources.

I don't know who deleted all the sources. Anyway, I still have some old Promod forks with Confogl-compatible sources. Some sources from Stabby and Epilimic's Promod repos, apparently, are LGOFNOC versions, so we don't need that.

[ProdigySim]

I really like the idea of centralizing all source in one repo better. Seems like less repo management fuss will have to be done. Submodules do require extra maintenance, and I don't think there are other repos which are better organized on their own containing these plugins.

[rpdelaney]

@ProdigySim , I created a separate issue for discussing submodules.

[ProdigySim]

Do we have everything we need as of 62e8eaa or are we still missing some?

[Attano]

Not only are we missing 80% of stuff after that commit, but it also seems to contain random modules from confoglcompmod that aren't even compilable. I'm going to restructurize everything soon.

[Attano]

https://github.com/Attano/L4D2-Competitive-Framework/

This contains all the plugins and sources used by modern configs.