Re: RFS: snes9x

[Michael Moorman <tensorpuddin@devio.us>]

On Fri, 2011-09-30 at 18:19 -0400, Michael Moorman wrote:
> On Fri, 2011-09-30 at 23:49 +0200, Eshat Cakar wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "snes9x".
> > 
> > what does snes9x have, that is not provided by zsnes?
> > zsnes, in my opinion, is very stable and does not lack a feature or have any 
> > performance issues (since mostly written in assembler).
> > And I do not say this because I maintain the zsnes package :-P
> > I just don't see, what we win here. Correct me, if I missed something.
> > 
> > Best regards
> > 
> 
> Sorry, I brought these things up in my ITP but forgot to put it in the
> RFS.
> 
> ZSNES is fine, fast and highly stable. I happily used it for years. It'd
> be perfectly acceptable, except for the fact that it uses i386 assembly
> and therefore isn't portable. Though I've heard rumors of people being
> able to cross-compile ZSNES with 32-bit libraries, I never had any
> success, which is how I came about using snes9x a couple years ago.
> 
> As far as I can tell (I'm sure you can tell me more!), ZSNES hasn't had
> an update since 2007. snes9x was RoQA'd back in March because it hadn't
> updated in a long time, and because the maintainer had abandoned it, but
> a month after the RoQA it was updated to 1.53, and more recently, it has
> been hosted on Github, where the most recent commit was this month.
> Hopefully, it will keep up at this level of activity.
> 
> Although I am a native English speaker, so I have no experience, ZSNES
> has no translations that I can see, whereas the GTK version of snes9x
> has five translations.
> 
> I feel that the GTK interface is nicer than the DOS-esque one of ZSNES,
> but I'll admit that's a personal preference.
> 
> I hope this explains my reasons for trying to re-package it.
> 
> Cheers,
> Michael
> 
> 

I uploaded a new version of the package to mentors just now, which fixes
the lintian warnings and other issues brought up with my first upload.

It is at
http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/non-free/s/snes9x/snes9x_1.53-1.dsc

Cheers,
Michael