Nethack 3.4.3 [PSARC/2008/172 FastTrack timeout 03/11/2008]

[Joseph Kowalski]

Danek Duvall wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 07, 2008 at 11:56:09AM -1000, Joseph Kowalski wrote:
>
>   
>> I'm also not questioning if this should be included or not (but if it is
>> included as a throwback to old UNIX nostalgia, where is "fortune"?  :-) )
>>     
>
> Bart's promised to integrate it, once has a spare cycle or two.
>
>   
>> Now, if I remember right (and I may not), this was the "bin" equivalent
>> for games.  If that's true, shouldn't this be place for nethack, the
>> executable?
>>     
>
> It was true, and it's something the Linux folks have taken up, but I think
> it's a poor place, in a world where we're studiously trying to avoid
> ghettoizing components for no good reason.  Linux compatibility here is
> irrelevant.  I just don't see a good reason to put anything under
> /usr/games.
>
> Perhaps we can ship by default with a bones file of a player called
> "/usr/games".
>
> Danek
>   
I'm really surprised at this.  We (Solaris) often get accused of NIH 
attitudes.  In
most cases, we can deflect that accusation because of pre-existing 
conventions.
Here we have a chance to not only be compatible with Linux, but even 
SunOS4.1.
(Of course, the root of all of this is ucb.)

Oh well.  As I said, I lost my chance to influence this choice.

Bart's "fortune" integration may not be so fortunate.  (If it 
happens,... Sorry Bart.)

- jek3

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