Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
On 11-Dec-2015, Ben Finney wrote:
> * The Inform 7 developers, as best I can determine from their public
> statements, assert control over the maintenance of the Inform 6
> compiler and standard library. Importantly for Debian, that means
> the maintenance schedules, version strings, and released tarballs
> are all different from the ‘inform6unix’ code base.
>
> So there will be separate ‘inform6-compiler’ and ‘inform6-library’
> source packages, getting source tarballs from (respectively) David
> Kinder's ‘Inform6’ compiler repository, and your ‘inform6lib’
> library. The version strings are derived from the releases from
> those repositories.
I now Intend To Package the ‘inform6-compiler’ package from an
upstream source distinct to ‘inform6’.
Package name: inform6-compiler
Version: 6.33
Upstream developer: Inform project
URL: http://inform7.com/sources/i6n/
License: Artistic License 2.0
Programming language: C
Description: Inform 6 interactive fiction language — compiler
Inform 6 is an object-oriented language for writing interactive
fiction, also known as “text adventures” or “adventure games”.
.
As an interactive fiction developer, you create Inform 6 source code
defining the story. Then compile from source code to “Z-code”, the
bytecode for a virtual machine (a “Z-machine”). The resulting story
files are highly portable, with Z-code interpreters available for
many different platforms.
.
This package installs:
* The Inform 6 compiler program, ‘inform6’.
This will be a dependency for the overall ‘inform6’ package, which is
from an upstream source maintained and versioned separately.
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