Howdy David, An update on how I'm tackling the packages in Debian: * The ‘inform6unix’ releases don't appear to be archived anywhere except on GitHub; the page you earlier designated at <URL:http://ifarchive.org/if-archive/infocom/compilers/inform6/source/> omits earlier releases when you post a new one. Perhaps that's by design, but it means I don't know a reliable URL that will persist over time for a particular release tarball. For now, I'm using the releases you generate as archived at <URL:https://github.com/DavidGriffith/inform6unix/releases/>, is that reliable into the future? * The Inform 7 developers, as best I can determine from their public statements, assert control over the maintenance of the Inform 6 compiler and standard library. Importantly for Debian, that means the maintenance schedules, version strings, and released tarballs are all different from the ‘inform6unix’ code base. So there will be separate ‘inform6-compiler’ and ‘inform6-library’ source packages, getting source tarballs from (respectively) David Kinder's ‘Inform6’ compiler repository, and your ‘inform6lib’ library. The version strings are derived from the releases from those repositories. If the confusion over authoritative releases and version strings can be resolved by the Inform 7 developers, I might be able to make better use of your extensive packaging work. * The confusing use of the “Inform” name to denote two utterly different authoring systems, distinguished merely by version number but both still active, forces me to re-name the packages and filenames to be clear these packages are specific to the Inform 6 system. For these Debian packages, the compiler program file is ‘/usr/bin/inform6’ (and so its manual page is ‘inform6.1’), shared resources go to ‘/usr/share/inform6/’, and so on. * The default in the compiler code (the ‘header.h’ file) for ‘Include_Directory’ is ‘"library"’, and that seems a sensible name for the standard library. So ‘/usr/share/inform6/library/’ (not ‘modules’) is the installed location for the Inform 6 standard library files from ‘inform6-library’. I'm nearing completion of the packaging. As you requested, I'll wait until you announce a “6.33.1” release before finalising this work. -- \ “What is it that makes a complete stranger dive into an icy | `\ river to save a solid gold baby? Maybe we'll never know.” —Jack | _o__) Handey | Ben Finney <ben@benfinney.id.au>
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