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[PATCH 0/2] Add freedisksysrom

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Message #20 received at 73770 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Liliana Marie Prikler <liliana.prikler <at> gmail.com>
To: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 宋文武 <iyzsong <at> envs.net>,
 Adam Faiz <adam.faiz <at> disroot.org>, 73770 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: [bug#73770] [PATCH 0/2] Add freedisksysrom
Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2024 18:56:16 +0200

Am Freitag, dem 18.10.2024 um 17:18 +0900 schrieb Maxim Cournoyer:
> Hi Liliana,
> 
> Liliana Marie Prikler <liliana.prikler <at> gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > Am Samstag, dem 12.10.2024 um 22:09 +0900 schrieb Maxim Cournoyer:
> > > This is a free BIOS implementation of the old Nintendo Famicom
> > > (NES) that replaces the nonfree, firmware blob 'disksys.rom'
> > > (extracted from the actual device).  It is useful with NES
> > > emulators such as jg-nestopia.
> > Perhaps we should add some dashes to make it "free-disksys-rom"?  I
> > wouldn't split "disk" and "sys" despite the camel case, but I'm in
> > the mood for kebab otherwise.
> 
> According to our naming convention (info '(guix) Package Naming'):
> 
>    [...] correspond to the lowercase conversion of the project name
>    chosen upstream, with underscores replaced with hyphens.  For
>    instance, GNUnet is available as ‘gnunet’, and SDL_net as ‘sdl-
> net’.
> 
> "freedisksysrom" is the correct name (camel case upstream names are
> simply converted to lower case)
> 
> > More importantly, is it expected that users can just install the
> > package and run with it or are extra steps needed to import it into
> > jg et al.?
> 
> Currently when you run for example jg-nestopia via jollygood (from
> the rgrf package), if you try loading a ROM that requires
> disksys.rom, it will let you know where it expects to find it
> ('~/.local/share/jollygood/bios/disksys.rom'), and you must manually
> copy/link such a file there.  I plan on making the integration
> between jg-nestopia and freedisksysrom seamless in a future
> (upstream) contribution to jg-nestopia.
SGTM then

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