Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add higan.

[ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)]

taylanbayirli@gmail.com (Taylan Ulrich "Bayırlı/Kammer") skribis:

> ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:

[...]

>> In what sense is it unsuitable?  It’s OK to have a couple of patches,
>> but it’s not quite OK to host a fork of the upstream package, IMO (at
>> the very least, it can create confusion and make it harder to see how it
>> differs from the “real” package.)
>
> The repo is just for having a consistent place from which the source can
> be fetched, as the author doesn't want source bundles to be downloaded
> from his website.  No changes to the code are made.
>
> The repo at GitLab didn't seem to tag releases properly.  That being
> said, now that I look at it, it seems more like an oversight for v098.
> Other releases seem to be tagged quite consistently:
>
>     https://gitlab.com/higan/higan/tags
>
> Should we use that repo instead?  It's a bit more official than mine.

Yes, I think it would be more appropriate.

>>>   * The program insists on looking in ~/.local/share for some data files
>>>     that are actually installed in $prefix/share; does my strategy here
>>>     look OK, in that I wrap the executable to copy the data files into
>>>     ~/.local/share every time the program is run?
>>
>> Sounds like a sledgehammer no?  :-)
>>
>> If those files are immutable, what about patching Higan to look for
>> those files in $datadir instead?
>
> Apparently, the files that are part of the distribution are pure data
> files, i.e. fine to be read-only.  However, the directory hierarchy of
> which they're a part needs to be writable, as higan creates further
> files there.  With that cp -r, the directory hierarchy is made sure to
> be there, and the data files made sure to be up to date.
>
> Although I didn't look too closely at the sources, patching higan to do
> things differently would presumably be a nontrivial task, since it seems
> bent on doing things in terms of this directory structure that contains
> both pure data and read-write data files.

Hmm OK.  What do other distros do?

Thank you!

Ludo’.