Re: LibreJam - FSF* should host a Libre Game development tournament!

[Jacob Hrbek]

> Packaging a program in distros is crucial for the community because 
it leads to various teams that independently work on the program, and 
thus have a chance to make sure it is honest.  This is why free software 
tends not to be malware.
> You may be right that it doesn't particularly help on other 
dimensions, but this one is a must. -- RMS

I agree. So what about making a GUI frontend as Digital Distribution 
Platform ("DDP") that has bindings to the available package managers?

Meaning having a list of games in GUI like 
(https://gitlab.com/librebob/athenaeum) to address the issue with 
discoverability and then using the available packaging solution to 
manage the game?

e.g. Installing SuperTuxKart from GUI for the software to detect the OS 
and do:
a) User on Trisquel -> If supertuxkart is packaged then `apt-get install 
supertuxkart --yes`
b) User on ArchLinux -> if supertuxkart is packaged then `pacman -Suy 
supertuxkart`
etc..

Might also be a good idea to use this frontend to organize the Game Jam 
and enable community to do their own if needed as currently the only way 
to do that efficiently is itch.io which has freedom issues.

Proof-of-concept: GameHub <https://github.com/tkashkin/GameHub> which is 
a GUI frontend to various DDPs that handles the installation through the 
provided solution.

.. would think it to be a good idea to fork GameHub to provide the 
decentralized game list and the binding.

On 1/2/22 07:59, Richard Stallman wrote:
> You may be right that it doesn't particularly help on other dimensions,
> but this one is a must.

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-- Jacob Hrbek

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