games/gcompris* update

[Alexander Nedotsukov]

John Hay wrote:

>>I think you shoud follow generic rule of dealing with ports maintained 
>>by other people.
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>Well I did ask on gnome@ which is the maintainer of gcompris2. :-)
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>>Second you may want to use this as start point:
>>   http://people.freebsd.org/~bland/gcompriss2.patch
>>   http://people.freebsd.org/~bland/libassetml.shar
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>Thanks, I had a quick look and will have a better look tonight. libassetml
>looks fine so why don't you commit it, then there is one thing less to
>worry about?
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Okay. Done. It was sitting in MarcusCom repo for some time waiting 
become really useful in ports tree. Now you guilty to fight that spotted 
snake ;-)

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>>I did this some time ago but not commited because besides gcompross have 
>>--without-python configure option it still complains a lot about missing 
>>modules at run-time. So it usable but definetly provoke a lot of python 
>>related PRs I won't to deal with this time.
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>I haven't seen this, but then I didn't try --without-python because there were already so many things that requires python. I'll have a look at it over the weekend though. Was there a reason that you wanted it without python? From what I understand there isn't anything in gcompris using it yet, they just added the framework for it, so that boards can be written in python.
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Right. But afair my very first attempt to update gcompriss was 4.9 
(gcompriss release) and that time gcompriss failed to build w/ python 
support. Since I don't like snakes for some reason I switched  their 
support off. But built w/o python support gcompriss complained at 
run-time about missed pyton module plus I got few abort()s related to 
python integration randomly walking through the game boards while 
testing. All this give me impression that port is not safe for parents 
yet ;-)
    To be honest I did not try 5.0-2 versions with python support. May 
be something changed since 4.9 time and you will be more lucky. Let me know.

Thanks,
Alexander.

>Hmm, I also haven't tried sound yet because I first have to locate a sound card for my kids' computer. :-)
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>John
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