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Yeah for that type of project, git may be the better solution.
Anyway, some kind of versioning system is a must.

I don't know enough about git to have a strong opinion vs svn yet, but I know from my experience working on open source projects that github and code.google.com seem to be the best organized, best maintained (free) hosting services out there.

I take it http://twitter.com/lefticus is you, then?

Yeah, I'm lefticus pretty much everywhere. Sourceforge, github, bitbucket, google code, most forums, etc.

Looks like you guys are getting a handle on it. I'm plenty busy with my main opensource project (http://chaiscript.com) and work, but if anyone has any specific questions I might be able to help with PM me, so I don't miss it.

-Jason

Components that need to be modified:
* Debugger (uses PInvokes for named pipes, which are supported in .NET 3.5, not sure about Mono)
* Audio (Irrklang is a mixed-mode assembly)
* SourceControl
plus all the other stuff that relies on native methods.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/35853/p-invoke-in-mono - if this is to be believed, then PInvoke has been in Mono for a while now. IrrKlang - could something else replace this if necessary?

pInvoke is well supported in mono too, it's used by any library that exposes an existing C or C++ library to mono (ie, sdl, wxwidgets and more). Named pipes exist on unix too, the main problem would just be porting between the unix/windows methods for using named pipes.

Also, it seems irrklang has support for linux too:
http://www.ambiera.com/irrklang/features.html

I haven't been involved in the AGS community (although I've played many of the games), but I spend most of my professional time working on crossplatform (Mac/Unix/Windows) C++ apps. If no one else manages to solve these problems with the Linux build, I might spend some time working on it this weekend.

-Jason