On Thu, 08 Jan 2026 01:44:27 +0100
Kirill A. Korinsky <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Tue, 06 Jan 2026 22:37:16 +0100,
> izzy Meyer <[email protected]> wrote:
> > 
> > [1  <text/plain; US-ASCII (7bit)>]
> > Hello ports@, 
> > 
> > Here are some open source reimplementations of the original two
> > fallout games. 
> > 
> > fallout1-ce needs a lower -O level for some likely UB in the code
> > I've not ironed out yet. But until I figure that out or upstream
> > fixes it, it should be OK to keep as-is with the lower -O value in
> > CFLAGS/CXXFLAGS and the related comment hint for user experience.
> > 
> > They come with pkg-readme files to inform the end-user on how to use
> > them.
> > 
> > Tested on amd64 and completed a playthrough of fallout1 with
> > fallout1-ce, still working on my playthrough of fallout2. Things
> > seem fairly stable for now.
> > 
> > Could I get OKs? Or at least a look over by a more experienced
> > porter? 
> > 
> > Thanks,
> >
> 
> Thoughts.
> 
> 1) CATEGORIES =       x11 games reads strange, maybe games x11?

Good point. Are CATEGORIES usually alphabetical?

> 2) Any reason to not add fpattern as a port which is used at build
> time?

IIRC these ports use different releases of fpattern.

> 3) I think readme should explain where to put and which files.

It doesn't matter where the files are, you just need to be in the cwd
of the gamefile's extracted dir like the readme says.

> 4) About license, I read this:
> 
> > You may use or modify the software only for your own internal
> > business purposes or for non-commercial or personal use. You may
> > distribute the software or provide it to others only if you do so
> > free of charge for non-commercial purposes.
> 
> I not sure that it can be distributed as precompiled package.
> 

Upstream wasn't too helpful when I asked about this either [1]

[1] https://github.com/alexbatalov/fallout2-ce/issues/428


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