[bug#25728] [PATCH 2/2] gnu: Add colorforth.

[Ricardo Wurmus]

Ricardo Wurmus <address@hidden> writes:

> It won’t work when it’s in the store because we cannot write to the
> store.  Even after copying it out of the store and changing permissions
> it would simply crash.  This could be a problem with my Libreboot
> machine, but the first problem is bad enough.
>
> If the software cannot be used when it is installed to the store then I
> don’t think it should be in the store at all.  I think we should drop
> this patch as the package is not actually usable.
>
> What do you think?

The alternative is to also install a wrapper script to “bin” that
essentially does this:

    #!/bin/sh
    qemu-system-i386 -snapshot -boot a -fda $prefix/share/colorforth/cf2012.img

It still crashes for me but at least it doesn’t complain about store
permissions.  If you can get this to run on your computer then please
send a final patch that incorporates all of these suggestions.
Otherwise I think it may not be worth spending more time on a toy
package like this.

What do you think?

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Ricardo

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