[gentoo-dev] SDLMame maintainer with Gnome setup wanted

[gentoo-dev] SDLMame maintainer with Gnome setup wanted

[Christian Birchinger]

Hello

Anyone interested in maintaining further SDLMame updates?
Beginning with 0.126 it requires GConf to get a font setting
for it's now mandatory debugger.

I use a plain XFCE setup and don't really want to install
stuff like Orbit and GConf etc.

My patch to have GConf optional was rejected by upstream:

https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=232233
http://www.bannister.org/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=42698&page=3

The ebuild should be in a good shape and updates should be
mostly simple bumps.

So if you use Gnome and like to play old arcade games,
this is the right package for you :-)

Christian

Re: [gentoo-dev] SDLMame maintainer with Gnome setup wanted

[Rémi Cardona]

Christian Birchinger a écrit :
> I use a plain XFCE setup and don't really want to install
> stuff like Orbit and GConf etc.

FWIW, upcoming versions of GConf will use dbus instead of orbit for IPC. 
That should reduce all the trouble we've all experienced with corba/orbit.

Cheers,

Rémi

Re: [gentoo-dev] SDLMame maintainer with Gnome setup wanted

[Luca Barbato]

Rémi Cardona wrote:
> Christian Birchinger a écrit :
>> I use a plain XFCE setup and don't really want to install
>> stuff like Orbit and GConf etc.
> 
> FWIW, upcoming versions of GConf will use dbus instead of orbit for IPC. 
> That should reduce all the trouble we've all experienced with corba/orbit.
> 

gconf is still problematic nonetheless.

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Luca Barbato
Gentoo Council Member
Gentoo/linux Gentoo/PPC
http://dev.gentoo.org/~lu_zero

Re: [gentoo-dev] SDLMame maintainer with Gnome setup wanted

[Luca Barbato]

Christian Birchinger wrote:
> Hello
> 
> Anyone interested in maintaining further SDLMame updates?
> Beginning with 0.126 it requires GConf to get a font setting
> for it's now mandatory debugger.
> 
> I use a plain XFCE setup and don't really want to install
> stuff like Orbit and GConf etc.
> 
> My patch to have GConf optional was rejected by upstream:
> 
> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=232233
> http://www.bannister.org/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=42698&page=3

seemed that it would be acceptable from what I read, _maybe_ I'd check 
if would be possible use fontconfig directly.

lu

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Luca Barbato
Gentoo Council Member
Gentoo/linux Gentoo/PPC
http://dev.gentoo.org/~lu_zero

Re: [gentoo-dev] SDLMame maintainer with Gnome setup wanted

[Christian Birchinger]

On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 11:07:10PM +0200, Luca Barbato wrote:
> Christian Birchinger wrote:
>> Hello
>> Anyone interested in maintaining further SDLMame updates?
>> Beginning with 0.126 it requires GConf to get a font setting
>> for it's now mandatory debugger.
>> I use a plain XFCE setup and don't really want to install
>> stuff like Orbit and GConf etc.
>> My patch to have GConf optional was rejected by upstream:
>> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=232233
>> http://www.bannister.org/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=42698&page=3
>
> seemed that it would be acceptable from what I read, _maybe_ I'd check if 
> would be possible use fontconfig directly.
>

Well, for me personaly a hardcoded "Monospace 10" fallback is
perfecly fine, because i have a proper fontconfig setup with an
acceptable aliases list and also proper DPI settings on all my
machines. This lets me use exactly the same font config (in
fact the same desktop setup) on all my machines, regardless
of the display/monitor size.

But no matter how wrong i think it is, i usualy respect the
upstreams wishes.

Christian

Re: [gentoo-dev] SDLMame maintainer with Gnome setup wanted

[Luca Barbato]

Christian Birchinger wrote:
> But no matter how wrong i think it is, i usualy respect the
> upstreams wishes.

If upstream is wrong I think we should help them...

lu

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Luca Barbato
Gentoo Council Member
Gentoo/linux Gentoo/PPC
http://dev.gentoo.org/~lu_zero

Re: [gentoo-dev] SDLMame maintainer with Gnome setup wanted

[Olivier Galibert]

On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 03:13:36PM +0200, Luca Barbato wrote:
> Christian Birchinger wrote:
> >But no matter how wrong i think it is, i usualy respect the
> >upstreams wishes.
> 
> If upstream is wrong I think we should help them...

Upstream thinks it's a bad idea not to give the user any possibility
of changing the font.  Upstream does not want to handle questions
about that if the gentoo ebuild is crippled by default in that aspect.

  OG.