[Bug 682544] Review request: gargoyle - multi-format interactive fiction interpreter

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--- Comment #15 from Carlo Teubner <ct.spammable@xxxxxxxxx> 2011-12-18 10:13:47 EST ---
Is there any chance that this will get sponsored at some point?

If so, I might work on packaging the latest version of Gargoyle (2011.1) for
Fedora 16.

For reference, here's what the Gargoyle upstream maintainer, Ben Cressey, said
when I asked him about the possibility of depending on upstream interpreters.

"It might be possible to pull in the interpreters as dependent packages,
however most of them are not actively maintained and no package exists.

"Even where an upstream version exists, building them for Gargoyle is akin to
building them for a different UI toolkit. I don't know what Fedora's policy is
on maintaining separate packages linked to Qt versus Gtk, but it seems
reasonable to me that the requisite changes to the source would be treated as a
fork rather than pushed upstream.

"Gargoyle's Glk implementation is an alternative both to other Glk
implementations and native UI toolkits (Gtk/Qt). Under Linux it is the de facto
standard for Glk since it is the only one with multimedia support that is
actively maintained. But that just means that an IF interpreter built for Linux
will target the native UI toolkit instead, to avoid being locked into Gargoyle.

"If the objection is that Frotz exists as a Fedora package, I should mention
that Gargoyle bundles GlkFrotz which is now an independent fork. The version
packaged for Fedora appears to be much older and probably lacks support for
Unicode and the Z-Machine Standard 1.1."

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