./games/widelands, Fantasy real-time strategy game inspired by Settlers II

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Branch: CURRENT, Version: 1.2.1, Package name: widelands-1.2.1, Maintainer: pkgsrc-users

Widelands is a free, open source real-time strategy game with singleplayer
campaigns and a multiplayer mode. The game was inspired by Settlers II but
has significantly more variety and depth to it. Still, it is easy to get
started through playable tutorials.


Required to run:
[textproc/icu] [graphics/png] [graphics/glew] [devel/boost-libs] [devel/SDL2] [fonts/SDL2_ttf] [audio/SDL2_mixer] [graphics/SDL2_image]

Required to build:
[pkgtools/x11-links] [devel/boost-headers] [x11/xcb-proto] [x11/fixesproto4] [pkgtools/cwrappers] [x11/xorgproto] [lang/python37]

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   2024-11-18 08:58:49 by Thomas Klausner | Files touched by this commit (9)
Log message:
widelands: Update widelands to 1.2.1

From Paul Ripke and Michael Baeuerle in pkgsrc-wip.

Highlights in the Widelands 1.2.1 release:

- This point release fixes several bugs and crashes found in Widelands 1.2, and
  offers full compatibility between these two releases for multiplayer games and \ 
replays.

Highlights in the Widelands 1.2 release:

- UI Plugins are add-ons that can add more functionality to the user interface
- Naval Warfare preview: Invade foreign coasts using warships!
- This is included as a preview feature and needs to be explicitly enabled in \ 
the game setup screen.
- Soldier garrisons for ports and headquarters
- Balancing changes to the Amazon economy
- Fifth scenario for the Frisian campaign
- More settings in the game setup screen, such as configurable durations for \ 
timed win conditions
- Diplomacy handling for the computer players
- Stick pinned notes onto map fields to mark important points
- Hyperlinks let you navigate within the encyclopedia and to the online help
- Easy maps publishing inside the editor
- High-resolution images for many more units
- Accessibility enhancements for many user interface components
- Expose more functionality to the add-ons and scenario scripting interface
- Fixed many crashes and hangs and enhanced error handling

Widelands 1.2 is translated completely into Catalan, German, Hungarian, Low \ 
German, and Russian, and the translations for 8 other languages are more than \ 
2/3 complete.

Highlights in the 1.1 release:

- Three new scenarios: One each for the Atlantean and Frisian campaigns, and a \ 
new standalone singleplayer mission
- An add-ons webserver allows efficient down- and uploading of add-ons as well \ 
as interactions such as voting and commenting on add-ons
- High-resolution images for many units
- Multithreading provides smoother performance
- Multiple enhancements to the in-game encyclopedia
- Diplomacy: Manage your alliances during the game
- Fastplace: Assign custom shortcuts to buildings to place them with one keystroke
- In-game loading and restarting of games and scenarios
- Save and load in-game windows
- Editor tool history dialog
- Various AI enhancements

Highlights in the 1.0 release:

- A new tribe: the Amazons
- An add-on system
- A third frisians scenario
- Dynamic tribe loading to speed up game loading
- Targeting individual map objects for removal
- Mute/unmute messages by buildings
- Fully redesigned main menu
- Configurable keyboard shortcuts
- Enhanced keyboard and mousewheel support in the UI
- Long-term stable Lua API for game content designers
   2024-11-14 23:22:33 by Thomas Klausner | Files touched by this commit (2429)
Log message:
*: recursive bump for icu 76 shlib major version bump
   2024-11-01 13:55:19 by Thomas Klausner | Files touched by this commit (2426)
Log message:
*: revbump for icu downgrade
   2024-11-01 01:54:33 by Thomas Klausner | Files touched by this commit (2427)
Log message:
*: recursive bump for icu 76.1 shlib bump
   2024-10-04 05:49:38 by Ryo ONODERA | Files touched by this commit (237)
Log message:
*: Recursive revbump from Boost 1.86.0
   2024-08-25 08:19:21 by Thomas Klausner | Files touched by this commit (575)
Log message:
*: replace CMAKE_ARGS with CMAKE_CONFIGURE_ARGS
   2024-06-03 17:16:21 by Ryo ONODERA | Files touched by this commit (1)
Log message:
games/widelands: Fix build with ICU 75
   2024-05-29 18:35:19 by Adam Ciarcinski | Files touched by this commit (1929) | Package updated
Log message:
revbump after icu and protobuf updates