Re: [AD] Inclusion of alfont in the Allegro 4 repository and releases

[Peter Wang <novalazy@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 04 Dec 2012 10:22:00 +0100, Tobias Hansen <thansen@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 12/04/2012 02:48 AM, Peter Wang wrote:
> > On Mon, 03 Dec 2012 22:27:02 +0100, Tobias Hansen<thansen@xxxxxxxxxx>  wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> alfont is still used by many Allegro 4 projects. Unfortunately the
> >> homepage with the most recent version is offline since quite some time
> >> (see mirror [1]). There have been at least four different homepages for
> >> alfont over the years. Some new patches are floating around, but there
> >> is no place to collect them. What do you think about including it in the
> >> Allegro 4 repository and releasing it with Allegro 4? It's the obvious
> >> place to look for it and that way noone would have to prepare releases
> >> just for alfont. Also, I think about packaging it for Debian and would
> >> prefer if there were a place to collect patches.
> >>
> >> I'm CCing some people who have worked on alfont.
> >>
> > Sorry, alfont code is really ugly and poorly packaged (bundled 3rd party
> > libraries).  I wouldn't want to be responsible for maintaining it in the
> > Allegro repository.
> >
> > Peter
> 
> It's not necessary to include the bundled libraries. I could prepare the 
> commits in a clone of your repository if that would help.

I suggest you (alfont stakeholders) start a new project, on a hosting
site where it won't disappear again.  With Debian backing it as
upstream, I'm sure maintenance efforts will gravitate there without
official support from Allegro developers.

Peter