Re: [PATCH] POWWOW: Make description more descriptive.

[Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>]

On Sun, Mar 20, 2016 at 11:25:01PM +0100, Nils Gillmann wrote:
> Second attempt, feedback is welcome, also I will try to get the
> location mentioned (lavachat.psyced.org/unix/) to host a patched
> powwow.scm for guix and also on one of my domains as soon as I
> have a webserver back.

Okay, I think that the package description is not the place to recommend
that users patch the source code and create an "out-of-tree" package.

Maybe you should fork powwow, change the command delimiter character,
and we package your fork. Or, try to make it configurable and get that
change integrated upstream. What do you think?

> 

> From bef465244e08b6f6d7f6230452a6b6daa46f62aa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Nils Gillmann <niasterisk@grrlz.net>
> Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2016 23:19:22 +0100
> Subject: [PATCH] gnu: powwow: Adjust description.
> 
> * gnu/packages/games.scm (powwow): Make description more descriptive.
> ---
>  gnu/packages/games.scm | 9 ++++++---
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/gnu/packages/games.scm b/gnu/packages/games.scm
> index 653e0c7..9fa7dca 100644
> --- a/gnu/packages/games.scm
> +++ b/gnu/packages/games.scm
> @@ -2022,7 +2022,10 @@ 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).  Additionally it can be used for chat servers
> +(for example psyced.org) if you keep in mind that ';' is the predefined command
> +separating character.  To work around this, you need to use a patched version of
> +POWWOW.  You have to alter the following in the defines.h file:
> + #define CMDSEP ';'. For further sources you can take a look at
> +http://lavachat.symlynx.com/unix/ which contains a patched version of POWWOW.")
>      (license license:gpl2+)))
> -- 
> 2.7.3
> 

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