Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2002 20:59:42 +1000 From: Tim Robbins <tjr@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: src/games bikeshed time. Message-ID: <20021009205942.A43333@dilbert.robbins.dropbear.id.au> In-Reply-To: <200210091029.g99AT8hb009974@grimreaper.grondar.org>; from mark@grondar.za on Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 11:29:08AM %2B0100 References: <200210091029.g99AT8hb009974@grimreaper.grondar.org>
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On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 11:29:08AM +0100, Mark Murray wrote: > What remains? All the games that dm(6) oversees. Things like > adventure(6), trek(6), battlestar(6) and so on. These are good > candidates for ports IMO. Folks may want to play them, but there is no > point in wasting time and space on them _by_default_. In some cases, > better upgrades are already available in ports (hack --> nethack). I > would like to make a port out of these and remove them from the base > distribution. I'd like to see these removed only if nobody is willing to maintain them. Check lines 70-75 of src/games/larn/main.c for an example of how out of touch they are with what's considered to be good practice (5 buffer overflows in 6 lines of code). Merging in NetBSD and/or OpenBSD's changes would be a good place to start. I think rogue, hack, primes, fortune and worm are worth keeping, but I don't have the time or patience to maintain them. Tim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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