Fwd: micropolis

[Miriam Ruiz]

I'm forwarding this to the mailing list, as it might also be useful
for others. Thanks Andrea! :)

Miry

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Andrea Musuruane <musuruan at gmail.com>
Date: 2008/12/28
Subject: Re: micropolis
To: Miriam Ruiz <miriam at debian.org>

On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 6:29 AM, Miriam Ruiz <miriam at debian.org> wrote:
> Has anyone in any of your distros packaged micropolis?

I had a try in packaging micropolis for Fedora but I didn't get too far.

I started from the SuSE package as a base. I have a somewhat working
version but the default screen is too big and I couldn't find a
patch/write one to solve this issue. Then I had other things to do and
I put this package aside.

Here it is a small recap of what I found. Maybe it can be useful to others.

I have found 3 different upstream website (which are not aligned among
themselves):
http://www.donhopkins.com/home/micropolis/
http://dev.laptop.org/git?p=projects/micropolis-activity
http://code.google.com/p/micropolis/

donhopkins.com is where micropolis was first released. No further
works seem to have done here.

dev.laptop.org code is the repository used by OLPC project. It has a
nice new icon:
http://dev.laptop.org/git?p=projects/micropolis-activity;a=blob_plain;f=activi
ty/activity-micropolis.svg;hb=HEAD
No other activity has been done in the last year here.

The new "official" Micropolis code is hosted on code.google.com.
MicropolisCore is the branch that is actively developed. I haven't
seen any recent activited on the micropolis-activity tree, but this is
AFAIK the only working version. Therefore IMHO an update of this tree
would be really needed.

A mega-patch based on the donhopkins.com version is available here:
http://git.zerfleddert.de/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi/micropolis

Suse and Mandriva have packages for it with some other patches:
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/games/openSUSE_Factory/src/micropolis-4.0-25.28.src.rpm
http://svn.mandriva.com/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/packages/cooker/micropolis/current/

SPEC files are closely related. I don't know who based his own on the other.

Regards,

Andrea.