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Subject: The /usr/bin/games bikeshed again
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 20:34:33 +0200
From: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>
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I have a little time on my hands while the library gurus sort out
stuff, so I thought I'd divert a little attention to the games dir.

Jordan brought this up a couple of years ago, and it got badly
bikeshedded, even though it was generally deemed to be a good idea.

So - I bring up an improvemnt on the original idea, and throw it
open for discussion.

I have coarsely cateogorised the games in src/games into broad
groups - adventure/strategy, board/card, novelty, quiz, arcade and
utility.

PLEASE PLEASE resist the temptation to recategorise games unless
there is a strong reason to do so. I'd prefer to not see this thread
die in a nitpicking argument about what category a particular game
belongs to.

I'd like to turn each category into a port (ports/games/bsd-adventure
for example), with the exception of "utility"). Those, I'd like
to keep where they are. In that class ("utility") is everyone's
favourite - fortune, so that should deal with most of the fears
from last time :-).

The ports/games/* ports could probably get a clue-injection on
how to use dm(6), but that is another bikeshed.

Here are all the games in their categories (I propose that we
ditch the "junk" category; wargames(6) is a rather stale joke by
now.):

Adventure/Strategy
------------------
adventure	A
atc		A
battlestar	A
hack		A
larn		A
phantasia	A
rogue		A
sail		A
trek		A
wump		A

Board/Card
----------
backgammon	B
bs		B
canfield	B
cribbage	B
fish		B
mille		B

Junk
----
wargames	J

Novelty
-------
bcd		N (U?)
grdc		N (U?)
piano		N
pig		N
pom		N
ppt		N (U?)
rain		N
worms		N

Quiz
----
arithmetic	Q
hangman		Q
quiz		Q

Arcade
------
robots		R (A?)
snake		R (A?)
worm		R (A?)

Utility
-------
caesar		U
factor		U
fortune		U
morse		U
number		U
primes		U
random		U

M
-- 
Mark Murray
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