Re: Could we have pioneer in Debian ?
On Thu, Nov 15, 2018 at 2:10 AM Simon Chopin wrote:
> But if you still want to go ahead
I read shirish's mail as asking for someone else to package it.
> The main problem you'd have in packaging Pioneer is that we lack any
> kind of stable release, or QA, all that. We basically release a new
> "snapshot" once in a while when we think there are "enough" new things
> in it.
Do your current snapshots work reasonably well? If so you could label
the next one a "release" and continue with that.
> Well, that, and the lack of sources for some assets (I doubt we have
> the "preferred form of modification" for the music).
> I can point you to the pioneer-assets repository
> which holds the source files for, at least, the 3D models (I think).
Thank you for thinking about this issue!
I would be interested in seeing links to the assets, their source
files and build systems.
You might be interested in reading these articles on the topic:
http://www.inventati.org/frx/essays/softfrdm/whatissource.html
https://b.mtjm.eu/source-code-data-fonts-free-distros.html
https://wiki.freedesktop.org/www/Games/Upstream/#source
--
bye,
pabs
https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
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