Re: resurrecting ghextris

Hello,
may I suggest that your friend takes a look at Galois
(https://packages.debian.org/buster/galois), it has hexagonal game
mode as well as others.

Gerardo

Il giorno gio 10 giu 2021 alle ore 23:54 Peter Green
<[email protected]> ha scritto:
>
> Someone I know in real life is a big fan of ghextris and while updating his computer
> we noticed it was gone from Debian since stretch, because it depends on obsolete
> libraries. We couldn't find any activity upstream or anywhere else either.
>
> So we decided to work on porting it from the obsolete python2/gtk2/gnome2 tech
> stack to a python3/python3-gi/gtk3/cairo stack. If/when we get it completed
> (right now it's possible to start a game and watch the prices drop, but keyboard
> input, peice preview, the status bar and most of the menus aren't working yet)
> I intend to upload it to Debian, I presume it makes sense to keep it under the
> games team and as-such I have requested to join the team.
>
> BTW I notice your wiki page on version control systems still refers to alioth.
>