Control: retitle -1 inform: Install an older version 6.15 as well Control: tags -1 + wontfix
On 01-Jul-2008, Samwise wrote: > Inform 6.31 (and Inform 6.31N) no longer supports the building of v3 > Z-Machine games. I think it would be good to include, as well as the > latest binary, an additional build of Inform 6.15 which was the last > version capable of compiling v3 games. That would be a very confusing result; the package ‘inform’ at version X.Y installs also a different older version? No, I think that's not something this package should do. The package declaring version “X.Y” should install the program of upstream's version “X.Y” and not an older version. You may want to file an “RFP” for a specific older version to also be maintained, but it won't be part of this package. > Creating a v3 game is quite hard for a newbie because there are > generally no binaries available for these older versions of Inform. > It would be great if you could accomodate this use-case. With no support for many years from upstream, I think what you're actually calling for is not a package of upstream, but an active fork: maintaining a fork from upstream's code to continue features they have made obsolete. I won't obstruct such efforts, but they don't IMO belong in this package. -- \ “If it ain't bust don't fix it is a very sound principle and | `\ remains so despite the fact that I have slavishly ignored it | _o__) all my life.” —Douglas Adams | Ben Finney <b...@benfinney.id.au>
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