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From: Jacob Hrbek <kreyren@rixotstudio.cz>
To: rms@gnu.org
Cc: dulsi@identicalsoftware.com, discussion@lists.fsfe.org,
	discusion@fsfla.org, committee@freesoftware.org.au,
	libreplanet-discuss@libreplanet.org
Subject: Re: LibreJam - FSF* should host a Libre Game development tournament!
Date: Sun, 02 Jan 2022 07:32:38 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <b6f36d3a-d9f8-9d3c-eb3f-cc74e98b2b2c@rixotstudio.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1n3uqI-0006He-1Y@fencepost.gnu.org>


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 > Packaging a program in distros is crucial for the community because 
it leads to various teams that independently work on the program, and 
thus have a chance to make sure it is honest.  This is why free software 
tends not to be malware.
 > You may be right that it doesn't particularly help on other 
dimensions, but this one is a must. -- RMS

I agree. So what about making a GUI frontend as Digital Distribution 
Platform ("DDP") that has bindings to the available package managers?

Meaning having a list of games in GUI like 
(https://gitlab.com/librebob/athenaeum) to address the issue with 
discoverability and then using the available packaging solution to 
manage the game?

e.g. Installing SuperTuxKart from GUI for the software to detect the OS 
and do:
a) User on Trisquel -> If supertuxkart is packaged then `apt-get install 
supertuxkart --yes`
b) User on ArchLinux -> if supertuxkart is packaged then `pacman -Suy 
supertuxkart`
etc..

Might also be a good idea to use this frontend to organize the Game Jam 
and enable community to do their own if needed as currently the only way 
to do that efficiently is itch.io which has freedom issues.

Proof-of-concept: GameHub <https://github.com/tkashkin/GameHub> which is 
a GUI frontend to various DDPs that handles the installation through the 
provided solution.

.. would think it to be a good idea to fork GameHub to provide the 
decentralized game list and the binding.

On 1/2/22 07:59, Richard Stallman wrote:
> You may be right that it doesn't particularly help on other dimensions,
> but this one is a must.

-- 
-- Jacob Hrbek


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  reply	other threads:[~2022-01-03 15:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-12-29  6:07 LibreJam - FSF* should host a Libre Game development tournament! Jacob Hrbek
2021-12-29 17:30 ` Dennis Payne
2021-12-29 18:07   ` Jacob Hrbek
2021-12-30  4:28   ` Richard Stallman
2021-12-30  7:13     ` Jacob Hrbek
2021-12-30 16:53       ` Dennis Payne
2021-12-31  4:26         ` Richard Stallman
2021-12-31  5:32           ` Jacob Hrbek
2022-01-02  6:59             ` Richard Stallman
2022-01-02  7:32               ` Jacob Hrbek [this message]
2022-01-03 16:39                 ` Michael McMahon
2022-01-04  8:43                   ` Jacob Hrbek
2022-01-05  3:54                     ` Richard Stallman
2022-01-05  5:06                       ` Michael McMahon
2022-01-05  5:56                         ` Jean Louis
2022-01-05  9:21                         ` Paul Sutton via libreplanet-discuss
2022-01-07  4:21                         ` Richard Stallman
2022-01-07  9:49                           ` Florian Snow
2022-01-07  9:53                           ` [FSFLA] " Ismael Luceno
2022-01-07 23:23                             ` Dennis Payne
2022-01-09 19:11                               ` Jean Louis
2022-01-14 15:26                               ` Ismael Luceno
2022-01-18 23:03                                 ` Dennis Payne
2022-01-19 13:27                                   ` Ismael Luceno
2022-01-20  3:12                                     ` Sebastian Silva
2022-02-14 16:11                                       ` Michael McMahon
2022-01-07 10:32                           ` Paul Sutton via libreplanet-discuss
2022-01-05 10:38                       ` [FSFLA] " Ismael Luceno
2022-01-05 14:37                         ` Jacob Hrbek
2022-01-05 15:10                           ` Ismael Luceno
2022-01-05 19:48                             ` Dennis Payne
2022-01-06 15:11                               ` Paul Sutton via libreplanet-discuss
2022-01-06 17:22                               ` Ismael Luceno
2022-01-04  3:01                 ` Dennis Payne
2022-01-04  8:45                   ` Jacob Hrbek
2021-12-31  5:33           ` Theodore Somers
2022-01-01  4:47             ` Richard Stallman
2022-01-01  9:07               ` Paul Sutton via libreplanet-discuss
2022-01-01 16:14                 ` Jacob Hrbek
2022-01-01 16:18             ` Jacob Hrbek
2021-12-30  8:34     ` Yasuaki Kudo
2021-12-30  9:33       ` Paul Sutton via libreplanet-discuss
2021-12-30 23:35         ` John Sullivan
2021-12-31  1:14           ` Dennis Payne
2021-12-30  9:00     ` Félicien Pillot
2021-12-31  4:26       ` Richard Stallman

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