On Tue, 1 Aug 2017, Anthony J. Bentley wrote: > Donovan Watteau writes: > > Attached is a port of Gnuboy, an old-school Game Boy Color emulator. > > > > I've been using this one for years, because it only requires SDL, > > and not one billion other dependencies. > > Hmm. I really don't like the thought of adding another old dead > Game Boy emulator to ports. I'm unhappy enough that people still use > mednafen and vbam. Gnuboy is a real relic. These days the only Game Boy > emulator people should be using is mgba or gambatte. > > mgba is a bit heavy on dependencies, yes (ffmpeg/ImageMagick). > gambatte is not though, it just needs SDL. It's unfortunate that > building the qt subpackage alongside it makes the entire build fail on > archs like powerpc where qt doesn't build. But I would prefer if an > effort were made to either turn gambatte and gambatte-qt into independent > packages (although that might be a hack?) or just to fix qt on powerpc. >
Didn't know that gambatte had a standalone SDL backend, thanks. There *is* a package on powerpc at the moment, actually (same thing on loongson). As for Gnuboy: is it dead, or is it done? There are other "old alternatives" in the ports tree (for example in editors), and we're keeping them, as long as there's someone taking care of them (unless the code is too broken or too dangerous). Gambatte is more modern, but it looks mostly unmaintained for the past 3 years, so I don't know if the difference with Gnuboy is that big. However, if the idea is more "avoid adding old stuff to the ports tree if there's a good alternative that's maintained", then I understand it perfectly. No problem, do as you wish.
