[crossfire] autopackage

[Brendan Lally]

Inspired by a comment that Leaf made on IRC concerning klik, I had a
look at autopackage as a way to distribute crossfire client. The hope
is that it could provide an alternitive to building from source or
comically outdated distro packages, and a way to provide snapshot
releases as Ryo currently does on windows.

After a bit of hair playing with the autopackage spec I have something
that seems to run ok.

Since it is too large for the tracker, and not suitable for widespread
public release,  I have placed the package, and the file from which it
is generated 
     
     http://cavetroll.uwcs.co.uk/crossfire-client-1.8-snapshot1.x86.package
     
     
and 
     
     http://cavetroll.uwcs.co.uk/default.apspec.in
     
      respectively. I
would be interested to know if they actually work properly/at all on
other systems. (expect these files to hang around for only a few weeks
until I get bored, or run low on disk space)

     
     http://autopackage.org/docs/howto-install/
     
      explains what this .package
file is and what to do with it.

regardless there appear to be two issues.
1) the .desktop file doesn't do anything. (this may be an issue with my system)
2) crossfire-client doesn't appear to be relocatable, whilst this
isn't a problem for running gcfclient, it is for getting it to use the
sound server (or bundling images with the client, which I haven't yet
attempted)

Notwithstanding these two points, does this seem like something worth pursuing?