Re: Bug#129699: ITP: race -- A 3D arcade overhead car game.

["Tille, Andreas" <TilleA@rki.de>]

On Fri, 18 Jan 2002, Ben Armstrong wrote:

> Ugh.  I think you'll find it's more work than simply providing a multi
> binary package.  I favour simpler solutions that work well in other
> environments (think non-Debian).  I'd rather improve the child-friendliness
> of free software in general than devise complicated Debian-specific
> solutions.
Hmm, yes or no.  Perhaps we find a clever wrapper which cares about this
stuff?  This could perhaps also handle multi binary images.

> We'll have to carefully think this one over before we go making
> an unofficial policy and recommendations to upstream, as some solutions
> are clearly superior to others.  Whatever we decide on should be fairly
> trivial to implement in most cases, and should not be Debian-specific.
A wrapper would not do any Debian-specific to the upstream source.

I have something in mind like:

    ln -s <reasonable_path_to_wrapper>/junior /usr/games/<game_to_wrap>

    Perhaps
             reasonable_path_to_wrapper = /usr/share/junior
    - but I'm not sure

   This wrapper script should do something like

   if [ user tagged as normal child ] ; then
     source /etc/junior/$0
     <path_to_real_binary>$0 $JUNIOR_OPTIONS
   else
     <path_to_real_binary>$0
   fi

   Than we need an

   /etc/junior/<game_to_wrap> which sets

       JUNIOR_OPTIONS="--child"

   or something like that.


Kind regards

         Andreas.