Spectrum ROMs in RPM Fusion

[Andrea Musuruane]

On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 4:17 PM, Lucian Langa<cooly at gnome.eu.org> wrote:
> I'm interested in this so feel free to cc me when you do. I can help
> with review. However I think you should submit this for rpmfusion in the
> first place or block your review request for legal as I do not think it
> has much change of being accepted in Fedora.

Can you please tell me why? I cant see the difference between
fuse-emulator and FBZX.

>> I'm going to use the same upstream Debian uses. Both Debian package
>> and upstream are maintained by Colin Watson who is in CC.
>>
>> http://packages.debian.org/sid/spectrum-roms
>> http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~cjwatson/code/spectrum-roms/
>>
>> Lucian, as the maintainer of fuse-emulator, can you please check if
>> all the ROMs it requires are currently shipped by upstream
>> "spectrum-roms"?
>>
>> Please let me know your thought about this plan.
>
> Unfortunately only a few spectrum roms are provided by above package.
> As I understand package was created to simplify spectrum emulators
> installation and roms were downloaded from Philip's website why not
> include all roms provided there ?

I think that if we can provide Colin a list of ROMs required for
inclusion, he will add them. He already did so in the past upon a
request by FBZX maintainer. Colin, you are in CC, what's your thought
about this?

> Fuse emulator supports most of the systems that Philip's website
> provides roms for. I see it quite impractical to to patch fuse to find
> roms from two places.

Can you please rephrase this part? I couldn't understand. Thanks!

Regards,

Andrea.