[PATCH] 0/1: powwow: Adjust Description.

[PATCH] 0/1: powwow: Adjust Description.

[Nils Gillmann]

This patch adjusts the description of powwow.
It removes the lines referencing anything other than MUD and
telnet from it, as this was based on the assumption that psyced
does not host a fork of it.

You have to apply an trivial short patch, or use the version you
won't find in guix master, to not have ";" as the command
separator. Still useable as a chatclient, but distracting. The
original purpose of this software is what is described in the
package definition now.

For the curios ones, an untested guix build replacing ; with § is
available at http://krosos.sdf.org/static/guix/


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Re: [PATCH] 1/1: powwow: Adjust Description.

[Nils Gillmann]

From 0f7fa244791b744e84186c4f755f00e363ed469e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Nils Gillmann <niasterisk@grrlz.net>
Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2016 01:09:09 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] gnu: powwow: Adjust description.

* gnu/packages/games.scm (powwow): Description.
---
 gnu/packages/games.scm | 4 +---
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/gnu/packages/games.scm b/gnu/packages/games.scm
index 653e0c7..8b84b2e 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/games.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/games.scm
@@ -2022,7 +2022,5 @@ is attributed to Albert Einstein.")
     (synopsis "MUD and telnet client")
     (description
      "POWWOW is a client software which can be used for telnet as well as for
-@dfn{Multi-User Dungeon} (MUD).  Additionally it can serve as a nice client for
-the chat server psyced with the specific config located at
-http://lavachat.symlynx.com/unix/")
+@dfn{Multi-User Dungeon} (MUD).")
     (license license:gpl2+)))
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Re: [PATCH] 0/1: powwow: Adjust Description.

[Leo Famulari]

On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 01:21:12AM +0100, Nils Gillmann wrote:
> This patch adjusts the description of powwow.
> It removes the lines referencing anything other than MUD and
> telnet from it, as this was based on the assumption that psyced
> does not host a fork of it.

Okay.

> You have to apply an trivial short patch, or use the version you
> won't find in guix master, to not have ";" as the command
> separator. Still useable as a chatclient, but distracting. The
> original purpose of this software is what is described in the
> package definition now.

So, there's something with the character 'c' that prevents its use as a
chat client? I don't understand, can you explain more?

> For the curios ones, an untested guix build replacing ; with § is
> available at http://krosos.sdf.org/static/guix/
> 
> 
> -- 
> ng
> personal contact: http://krosos.sdf.org
> EDN: https://wiki.c3d2.de/EDN
> 
> 

Re: [PATCH] 0/1: powwow: Adjust Description.

[Nils Gillmann]

Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> writes:

> On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 01:21:12AM +0100, Nils Gillmann wrote:
>> You have to apply an trivial short patch, or use the version you
>> won't find in guix master, to not have ";" as the command
>> separator. Still useable as a chatclient, but distracting. The
>> original purpose of this software is what is described in the
>> package definition now.
>
> So, there's something with the character 'c' that prevents its use as a
> chat client? I don't understand, can you explain more?

No, the CMDSEP (see defines.h) character is currently assigned to ';'
as you can imagine this can be pretty annoying when you write a
sentence containing ";" and it breaks the sentence.

What lavachat.symlynx.com/unix/ (one of the historic subpages of
psyced.org) sets the character to is (I'll expand this one for
readability now):

Keysym-Name "section"
html hexadecimal "&#xA7;"
html named char "&sect;"
LaTeX "\S"
on my keyboard "§"

So you can use it as a chatclient as you can use any telnet
client as a chat client, but what I had written is not correct
and was based on assumptions recently corrected.
I could expand the description with this knowledge to something
similar to "it can also be used as a chatclient for various
chatservers like psyced.org, but keep in mind that we use an
unpatched version here which maps ";" to commando separation."

What do you think, should I extend the description I submitted in
this thread, based on what I just explained?
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