[Bug 2213] Review request: love - A free 2D game engine which enables easy game creation in Lua

[RPM Fusion Bugzilla]

https://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2213

Jeremy Newton <alexjnewt at hotmail.com> changed:

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--- Comment #12 from Jeremy Newton <alexjnewt at hotmail.com> 2012-03-10 15:53:11 CET ---
(In reply to comment #11)
> Hi,
> 
> (In reply to comment #9)
> > (In reply to comment #8)
> > > > Good point, I can rename this to love-freeworld and submit the modified version
> > > > to fedora.
> > > 
> > > Yes and no, the problem is that both versions then will either conflict, or we
> > > will need
> > > to rename various files inside the packages. IE rename the -freeworld binary to
> > > /usr/bin/love-freeworld
> > > and I guess have the rest of the files in a love-common package which then
> > > would be provided by
> > > the Fedora package.
> > 
> > IMHO adding a "conflicts" tag is better. Why would you want to have both free
> > and nonfree versions installed?
> 
> Because if there is a Fedora version, then games in Fedora will be tested with
> that
> version not the freeworld version, the Fedora version may even be a different
> version,
> or have some bugfixes applied to make a specific game work which have not yet
> found there way into the rpmfusion version.
> 
> Even more important as rpmfusion we've made the promise that we will never
> replace
> Fedora packages like for example atrpms does. This has been a very concious
> decision
> made from day one, this also means no Conflicts.
> 
> > What you maybe will want to have are different versions of it installed,
> > because some games work only with one of them. I guess this is possible with
> > symlinks, like when having several python versions and `python` links to the
> > default one.
> 
> Right, and if you solve that problem, you probably also have the problem of
> having a
> freeworld and a regular version installed at the same time solved.
> 
> > > I guess the big question is are there a few good Free games using love which
> > > can go to Fedora, because if
> > > there aren't any I wonder if it is worth the trouble.
> > 
> > Stabyourself.net games are great, but their license won't fit in Fedora, so
> > with an end-user ponit of view, maybe this would not be needed. But then we
> > would be forgetting people who may want to develop LÖVE games in Fedora.
> 
> I think that if currently there is no suitable content for Fedora, that then it
> makes sense
> to just have love in rpmfusion for now and don't do a Fedora version.
> 
> That still leaves the question of the package name, we could anticipate there
> be a
> version for Fedora in the future, and name the package love-freeworld. And I
> assume
> you will be using alternatives to deal with having multiple versions installed
> ?
> 
> If you use alternatives and embed a version in the binary name and let
> alternatives manage a symlink to it, then you might as well put freeworld in
> the versioned binary name too, then it will be really easy to later add LOVE to
> Fedora too.
> 
> I also suggest if you want todo multiple version to have a noarch love-common
> package with the following files:
> 
> %{_datadir}/icons/hicolor/scalable/*/*.svg
> %{_datadir}/applications/%{name}.desktop
> %{_datadir}/mime/packages/%{name}.xml
> 
> So that these can be shared between all the version. Alternatively you could
> let all packages own them but will lead to installation conflicts if one
> version has different versions of these files then other versions.
> 
> Last I still would like to see some discussion about love being a too generic
> name and using love2d as name, at least for the package name.

Given the circumstances that Hans described, I plan to just submit this to
Fedora, I don't think it's worth the effort to be honest. If another RPM Fusion
packager wishes to maintain a love-freeworld, they can resubmit/reopen this.

Here's the Fedora package review request for anyone who is interested:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=802050

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