On Apr 8, 9:09 am, "Magnate" <n...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> "Andrew Sidwell" <takka...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote
>
>
>
> > Magnate wrote:
> >> "pete m" <pmac...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote
> >>> On Apr 2, 9:09 am, "Magnate" <n...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> >>>> My assumption is that the 'order of preference' for
> >>>> compiling/playing V on *nix is expected to be SDL -> GTK ->
> >>>> ncurses. Grateful for confirmation if that's right or correction
> >>>> if it isn't.
>
> >>> I believe that X11 sup****t will continue--not everyone is willing to
> >>> im****t the huge sdl library, and the *nix build still should run
on,
> >>> well, UNIX. This includes OS X, Solaris, etc.
>
> >>> I think the preference is for SDL -> GTK -> X11 -> ncurses
>
> >> Ok, I'm happy with that.
>
> >> Andrew - any views?
>
> > Yeah, Pete got it right. :) Though I'd rather the debian build of the
> > next release didn't contain X11 just because then the game will be
Free
> > Software and thus be able to sit happily in main. The bit that isn't
free
> > software is the BMP im****ter; to fix this, someone would have to write
a
> > PNG loader replacement using libpng. (Volunteers always welcome!)
>
> Hmm. Is the BMP im****ter included in the main Angband-3.0.9b source
tarball?
> If so then it won't get into debian/main, and you don't need to dump X11
> sup****t (at least, not for that reason). If the BMP im****ter is a
separate
> download, then it doesn't contaminate the Angband package, and Angband
can
> go into main (if we dump X11). I can always make a separate non-free
package
> for the BMP im****ter if you want.
>
> Personally I don't think dropping X11 from the Debian package is too
> terrible, since the vast majority of Debian users will be able to use at
> least one of SDL or GTK. In fact I think it might be worth investigating
> making it into separate packages: angband-sdl and angband-gtk, since you
> don't need both. The current Debian package (3.0.9a) actually uses Xaw
by
> default, so that's definitely going to change in any case.
>
> I'm not so convinced about the wisdom of dropping X11 sup****t more
> generally. As Pete implies, there are a number of *nix platforms which
won't
> sup****t either GTK or SDL, and as such wouldn't be able to run Angband
> except using ncurses (single window etc.). Hmmm.
>
ncurses is a lot worse than that. Canonical ncurses uses bold face
instead of a lighter hue to represent "LIGHT_BLUE", etc. So "light
dark" is rendered as pure black, with a pure black background.
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