From: swedebugia <swedebugia@riseup.net>
To: pkill9@runbox.compkill9 <pkill9@runbox.com>
Cc: 34523 <34523@debbugs.gnu.org>
Subject: [bug#34523] Add tetrinet
Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2019 21:40:34 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2A2F7912-1C25-40C6-9324-EB85A5A41A9D@riseup.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1gyeuS-0005Lw-SS@rmmprod05.runbox>
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pkill9@runbox.com skrev: (26 februari 2019 16:44:44 CET)
>Here is a patch that:
> - Removes the full stop after 'no tests'
>- Changes the synopsis from "Multiplayer tetris" to "Multiplayer tetris
>game".
> - Replaces the description with what you (swedebugia) suggested.
>
>> As an aside I did not find a working server anywhere ... There is a
>possibility to host your own server with jetrix though.
>
>Oh I realised you meant a server program - the tetrinet package builds
>one called 'tetrinet-server', I tested it just now by running these
>commands in separate terminals:
>
>`tetrinet-server`
>`tetrinet player1 localhost`
>`tetrinet player2 localhost`
>
>Sending messages as the two different players shows up correctly in
>each tetrinet client, so I think the server works fine.
>
>On Tue, 26 Feb 2019 15:20:28 +0000 (GMT), <pkill9@runbox.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Swedebugia,
>>
>> > having looked it up online I prefer the WP synopsis:
>> > "TetriNET is a console multiplayer online Tetris game for up to six
>people."
>> >
>> > There is a gnome version also. We should state clearly that this is
>a
>> > console/text-mode client.
>>
>> What does 'WP' mean?
>>
>> > As an aside I did not find a working server anywhere and the
>homepage of
>> > the project is dead. There is a possibility to host your own server
>with
>> > jetrix though.
>>
>> I played Tetrinet with someone over a server, but I can't remember
>what the address was.
>>
>> You can't access the homepage of the project? I can access
>http://tetrinet.or.cz fine. Or do you mean it hasn't been updated in
>ages?
>>
>> > There could be trademark issues with the name/game also see
>> > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tetris_Company
>>
>> Regarding the potential trademark issues, both FSF-approved distros
>Parabola and PureOS have Tetrinet in their repositories[1][2], so I
>think it would be acceptable to add it to Guix. And if a copyright
>claim is made in the future it can always be removed.
>>
>> [1] Tetrinet in Parabola -
>https://www.parabola.nu/packages/?q=tetrinet
>> [2] Tetrinet in PureOS -
>https://software.pureos.net/search_pkg?term=tetrinet
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> On Sat, 23 Feb 2019 07:23:43 +0100, swedebugia
><swedebugia@riseup.net> wrote:
>>
>> > On 2019-02-23 10:26, swedebugia wrote:
>> > > For the sake of making it easy to find when searching synopsies I
>> > > suggest you add "game" to the end of yours.
>> > > --
>> > > Sent from my k-9 mail for Android.
>> >
>> > having looked it up online I prefer the WP synopsis:
>> > "TetriNET is a console multiplayer online Tetris game for up to six
>people."
>> >
>> > There is a gnome version also. We should state clearly that this is
>a
>> > console/text-mode client.
>> >
>> > As an aside I did not find a working server anywhere and the
>homepage of
>> > the project is dead. There is a possibility to host your own server
>with
>> > jetrix though.
>> >
>> > There could be trademark issues with the name/game also see
>> > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tetris_Company
>> >
>> > --
>> > Cheers Swedebugia
A ha, I completely missed the imbedded server. Maybe we should mention in the description that it includes a client and server.
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Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-02-18 6:57 [bug#34523] Add tetrinet pkill9
2019-02-18 10:36 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2019-02-18 14:11 ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
2019-02-18 14:41 ` Danny Milosavljevic
2019-02-23 9:23 ` swedebugia
2019-02-19 7:51 ` pkill9
2019-02-23 9:26 ` swedebugia
2019-02-23 6:23 ` swedebugia
2019-02-26 15:20 ` pkill9
2019-02-26 20:45 ` swedebugia
2019-02-27 7:10 ` pkill9
2021-08-06 3:20 ` bug#34523: " Maxim Cournoyer
2019-02-26 15:44 ` [bug#34523] " pkill9
2019-02-26 20:40 ` swedebugia [this message]
2019-02-27 7:01 ` pkill9
2019-02-27 14:11 ` pkill9
2019-02-28 4:03 ` swedebugia
2019-03-02 20:10 ` pkill9
2019-03-31 11:44 ` pkill9
2019-04-10 13:07 ` pkill9
2019-06-30 9:33 ` pkill9
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