Re: About VICE
On Mon, Jul 24, 2000 at 10:53:01PM -0500, Zed Pobre wrote:
> I was planning to take over this package from him. He more or
> less orphaned it, and it was supposed to become my responsibility, but
> I ended up getting busy personally before I finished trying to get
> distribution permission for the ROMs. I *did* track down who owns the
> rights to them (Tulip, in the Netherlands). I hadn't yet found out if
> they know they own the rights to them. I was in the process of
> drafting letters to them when my life got complicated again.
Oh, I'm very happy to hear you. I was thinking about the problem of rom
distributions and it's hard to solve. Did you write in vice-devel list?
In the past they talked about using an assembler and a debugger instead of
roms. I was to do it, but now I think it's better that you work on it.
> The previous mechanism was to create a downloader program that
> went to a known location for the ROM images and downloaded them. The
> previous version stopped working, and I considered it a horrible idea
> to build a package that will break on new installs every time a remote
> site changes its layout. I *did* in fact create a vice-roms package,
> but I can't upload it without opening a legal can of worms.
Uhm uhm, I understand. Install with download is bad even if in some
situation you cannot avoid it. If Tulip could change this situation...
[snip]
> It needs to be removed completely. I believe that the source
> package is simply the upstream source package, and actually contains
> ROM images, though the binary package does not.
Thanks for your clarification. Naturally I won't make a vice package and I
hope you can solve as many problems as possible about it. Good work!
bye
Christian
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