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[bug#30380] gnu: Add dolphin-emulator.
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Thompson, David |
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[bug#30380] gnu: Add dolphin-emulator. |
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Wed, 7 Feb 2018 15:53:03 -0500 |
Hello,
On Wed, Feb 7, 2018 at 3:43 PM, Björn Höfling
<address@hidden> wrote:
> On Wed, 7 Feb 2018 11:58:02 -0500
> "Thompson, David" <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>> Here a couple of patches that add the Dolphin emulator. I used a Git
>> snapshot because the project goes *years* between releasing official
>> source tarballs while at the same time directing users to use binaries
>> built from the latest commit in their Git repo, so I think packaging
>> the Git source aligns best with what a Dolphin user would expect.
>>
>> - Dave
>
> Hi Dave,
>
> I haven't done a full review, here are some things I noticed:
>
> * License is GPLv2+, not only v2.
> * dolphin/Data/Sys/GC/font_*.bin: Licensed under ASL2.0.
> * The homepage states this package is only available for x86_64.
> If that is true, add a line like this to your package:
> (supported-systems '("x86_64-linux"))
> * dolphin/Installer/dxredist/ contains (Windows) binaries. Remove with
> a snippet.
> * Remove dolphin/Externals in a snippet. Or at least those that you
> have added as dependencies.
> * There are binaries in the distribution:
> dolphin/Data/Sys/GC/dsp_coef.bin and dsp_rom.bin
> The commit message says something like "based off of observed
> effects on the virtual machine", but still this is binaray. Or is there
> some way of building this from commented assembly? Here is the full
> commit message:
>
> https://github.com/dolphin-emu/dolphin/commit/e3531d17d700339828d7bab192c66fba5fcbac86
>
> * Finally, doesn't this encourage people to use non-free software, i.e.
> the original manufacturers game discs? Or is there any free software
> implementation running on this emulator?
>
> Björn
Nevermind. I am dropping this patch set.
Sorry,
- Dave
- [bug#30380] gnu: Add dolphin-emulator., Thompson, David, 2018/02/07
- [bug#30380] gnu: Add dolphin-emulator., Björn Höfling, 2018/02/07
- [bug#30380] gnu: Add dolphin-emulator.,
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- [bug#30380] gnu: Add dolphin-emulator., Thompson, David, 2018/02/09
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