On Fri, 2011-09-30 at 18:19 -0400, Michael Moorman wrote: > On Fri, 2011-09-30 at 23:49 +0200, Eshat Cakar wrote: > > Hi, > > > > > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "snes9x". > > > > what does snes9x have, that is not provided by zsnes? > > zsnes, in my opinion, is very stable and does not lack a feature or have > > any > > performance issues (since mostly written in assembler). > > And I do not say this because I maintain the zsnes package :-P > > I just don't see, what we win here. Correct me, if I missed something. > > > > Best regards > > > > Sorry, I brought these things up in my ITP but forgot to put it in the > RFS. > > ZSNES is fine, fast and highly stable. I happily used it for years. It'd > be perfectly acceptable, except for the fact that it uses i386 assembly > and therefore isn't portable. Though I've heard rumors of people being > able to cross-compile ZSNES with 32-bit libraries, I never had any > success, which is how I came about using snes9x a couple years ago. > > As far as I can tell (I'm sure you can tell me more!), ZSNES hasn't had > an update since 2007. snes9x was RoQA'd back in March because it hadn't > updated in a long time, and because the maintainer had abandoned it, but > a month after the RoQA it was updated to 1.53, and more recently, it has > been hosted on Github, where the most recent commit was this month. > Hopefully, it will keep up at this level of activity. > > Although I am a native English speaker, so I have no experience, ZSNES > has no translations that I can see, whereas the GTK version of snes9x > has five translations. > > I feel that the GTK interface is nicer than the DOS-esque one of ZSNES, > but I'll admit that's a personal preference. > > I hope this explains my reasons for trying to re-package it. > > Cheers, > Michael > >
I uploaded a new version of the package to mentors just now, which fixes the lintian warnings and other issues brought up with my first upload. It is at http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/non-free/s/snes9x/snes9x_1.53-1.dsc Cheers, Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1318198561.4222.2.camel@nova
