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On Wed, Nov 28, 2001 at 06:33:04PM -0500, Bob wrote:
> > - network: why not use something like libnet?
>
> Because libnet is not being updated :)
Surely George can say something about that :)
> Really, its only for completion of Allegro - it does abstracts everything
> else needed to make a game, so why not networks?
Because network is something which really really really is not needed in
lots of games, just take a look at allegro.cc. I understand however that
today the trend is to move towards multiplayer(only) games, but since
networking is really hard to do properly as well, I think it deserves
it's own library with proper documentation, examples, etc.
Also, if you wanted to only use networking in the future, you would be
'forced' to include Allegro as well, no matter how modular the interface
would be, and if it's modular, why melt both libs?
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