Irrlicht Engine

It's a maintenance thing. When (and not if) you discover some silly security vulnerability in IrrXML, we want to be able to patch it once and push it out, not hunt down every forked and embedded copy of irrXML that exists in our very large package universe.

It's also a useful thing for picking up ...

Any update here?

Okay, here's a new patch (sorry that it isn't split out):
http://spot.fedorapeople.org/irrlicht-1.7.2-fastatof-improvements-typefixes.patch

It adds:

* Portability to irrTypes.h for u16, s16, u32, s32, u64, s64 for at least MSC, Linux i386 and Linux x86_64. Should work everythere though ...

Sorry for the delay on responding (I thought the forum would send me an email upon reply, but it doesn't seem to do that). The missing typedefs is a valid concern, although, because the rest of the typedefs in that header didn't seem to be completely portable, I didn't think it was a problem ...

Hi! I'm the Fedora maintainer for the Irrlicht Engine (and IrrXML). Recently, another Fedora contributor wanted to package up and include the Open Asset Import Library, aka assimp ( http://assimp.sourceforge.net/ ). During the review process, it was discovered that assimp was using a modified copy ...