Is maintainer active

[UsmanTariq2]

Is the maintainer active for the project?

[Sabr0sa]

Unfortunately no, but I made a fork of SLikeNet in which I fixed all reported bugs, removed some legacy stuff and improved a lot of code. For example, IPv6 now works out of the box. It should mostly be API compatible (except for some dangerous stuff that I removed like the variadic constructor of SLNet::RakString), but it is not ABI compatible and I won't pay attention to ABI compatibility in the future. Also I tested only on Windows and Linux x86 (32 and 64 bit), so I don't know it it works elsewhere. Here's the link to my fork: https://gitlab.com/Sabrosa/slikenet

[siohaza]

@Sabr0sa by no ABI compatibility do you mean that it wouldn't be compatible with original RakNet?

[Sabr0sa]

That means that you can't just replace the old .dll/.so with the new one, but you have to recompile your program. That does not only affect the original RakNet, but also SLikeNet. Major code improvements without touching the ABI are almost impossible, unfortunately.

[siohaza]

Ah my use case is a bit different. I am working on the project which uses RakNet as their middleware, but working with original library is quite a nightmare. My goal is to multiplayer server which uses more supported library like SLikeNet, but one that still maintains compatibility with original RakNet.

[Sabr0sa]

What do you mean by compatibility? API, ABI or protocol compatibility? If you have the source code of your project and can recompile it, you can update without any problem. My fork is 100 % protocol compatible and 99 % API compatible with RakNet, SLikeNet is even ABI compatible with RakNet. There is no need to ever use the original RakNet.

[geringsj]

@Sabr0sa

Unfortunately no, but I made a fork of SLikeNet in which I fixed all reported bugs, removed some legacy stuff and improved a lot of code.

Is there a specific reason why you reset the git history by dumping all the original code into new "Initial commit"?

[Sabr0sa]

Stupidity 😁 I just downloaded the code and initialized a new git repo, in retrospect it was stupid and I don't know why I did that. I already wanted to change that and continue the existing git history, but that would break all clones since I would have to rewrite the git history.