Control: reassign -1 wnpp Control: notfound -1 inform/6.30-2.1 Control: retitle -1 RFP: inform7 -- Inform 7 interactive fiction design system
On 31-Aug-2007, Reuben Thomas wrote:
> [I'm not sure whether this request should go here or to wnpp, since
> Inform 7 seems not really to be an upgrade, but a whole new system,
> though I understand it is still built on Inform 6.]
I'm making the judgement that this is, in fact, an RFP for the
fundamentally different Inform 7 software.
Package name: inform6
Version: 7.x
Upstream developer: Inform project
URL: http://inform7.com/
License: Artistic License 2.0
Programming language: Inform 6
Description: Inform 7 interactive fiction design system
Inform 7 is a design system for interactive fiction based on
natural language. It is a radical reinvention of the way
interactive fiction is designed, guided by contemporary work
in semantics and by the practical experience of some of the
world's best-known writers of IF.
Inform 7 is released piecemeal <URL:http://inform7.com/sources/>, with
many necessary components not yet released in source form at all.
People hoping to see this in Debian will, it seems, need to be patient
with the upstream developers.
> Since Inform 7 seems to be an important development, it would be
> nice to have it in Debian.
I agree. It will need to be a distinct package, though, as the
‘inform’ package is soon to be renamed ‘inform6’ to reflect its focus
only on the Inform 6 system.
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