Hi Bruno, > * Package name : drmips > Version : 1.2.1 > Upstream Author : Bruno Nova <brunomb.nova@gmail.com> > * URL : https://bitbucket.org/brunonova/drmips/ > * License : GPL > Programming Lang: Java > Description : Educational MIPS simulator - DrMIPS > (...) > I am the author of the program. Above was the "general" description of the > software. > This simulator is to be used mostly in Computer Architecture classes where the > MIPS architecture is studied. > It simulates some MIPS code and shows, step-by-step: the assembled code, the > registers, the data memory and a graphical representation of the datapath > (unicycle or pipeline). > I intend to package the PC version of the simulator (obviously). As a teacher (although I teach Operating Systems, but for some things, I'm sure it's needed for my students to understand Computer Architecture, and it's good to have tools to point them to), I am interested in seeing this tool. > Now, I know this is a very specific program, and useless to most people. > Also, besides the University where it was created, probably almost no one else > uses it (1 or 2 other universities, at maximum). > So, I'm perfectly fine if the package is not accepted. After all, no one > requested this package. > But this would also be the first package I would send to Debian, so it would be > useful for me to learn how to submit packages to Debian and Ubuntu > repositories. > I have a package for Ubuntu in a PPA, though (ppa:brunonova/ppa). Most packaes are requested only by the person uploading and maintaining them, and only later are found to be useful for others. I would say your package is welcome; even more so knowing that you as the upstream author are interested in having it in Debian. I'd only ask what does your package provide that existing packages don't - I know, for example, we have SPIM. SPIM is quite old, and has had a slow upload history. Its last new upstream release is eight years already. But for the task it fulfills, it is a good tool. How would you compare DrMIPS with SPIM?
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