[Savannah-hackers] Re: submission of KFrotz - savannah.nongnu.org

[Mathieu Roy]

Hi,
Your project has been approved but :

Please notice that the address of the FSF that you
have written in your files is not correct anymore. The new address
of the FSF is:
  59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307, USA

Please update your files.

Regards,


address@hidden said:

> A package was submitted to savannah.nongnu.org
> This mail was sent to address@hidden, address@hidden
> 
> Leif Huhn <address@hidden> described the package as follows:
> License: gpl
> Other License: 
> Package: KFrotz
> System name: frotz
> Type: non-GNU
> 
> Description:
> My project, tentatively named KFrotz, will be a complete overhaul of the 
> interface of WinFrotz 2002 (A Z-machine interpreter used to play old games 
> like Zork, and newer \"interactive fiction\") to Qt 3 / Qt 2.3 / Qt Embedded 
> / KDE 3.  99% of z-machine interpreters violate newer interface guidelines by 
> not providing scrollback, or resizable windows (or by providing broken 
> resizing and scrollback in a strange interface like WinFrotz 2002.)  This 
> project will provide a much more uniform interface by initially dropping 
> support for graphical text adventures such as Zork 0.
> 
> Currently the project compiles for Qt 3 only, and has only been compiled with 
> GCC 3.2.  My primary goals are to make the program integrate into KDE and 
> also work on handhelds running embedded linux, such as the Sharp Zaurus.  
> Currently the best palm sized interpreters run on non-free platforms only.
> 
> One possible sticking point is the name, which may change.  \"KFrotz\" was 
> the name of a project in 1998 to port Frotz to KDE.  A search on google 
> returns only one page making reference to it, and no reference to it has been 
> made on Usenet since June 1999, according to google.  The source does not 
> appear to be distributed on the internet any longer.
> 
> This project borrows code from WinFrotz 2002, which is under GPL v2, and 
> Frotz 2.43 which is under GPL v2.  The lzz files are preprocessed through 
> Lzz, which is a non-free (?) utility for generating c++ source headers.  
> Before the first release it will be removed from the build system.  If you 
> want to look at the code, please note that the Makefile is broken!  The 
> source can be found under http://secure.dkstat.com/~leif/kfrotz.tgz
> 
> Aside from a few compilation tweaks, the tarball is Frotz 2.43, except for 
> the directory src/common which is from WinFrotz 2002, and src/qt which 
> contains my code and heavily modified portions of Frotz 2.43.  I am also 
> planning to borrow from Zoom, another GPL v2 interpreter.
> 
> Other Software Required:
> This program requires Qt 3 currently.  I\'m planning on porting it to Qt 2.3, 
> Qt Embedded, Qtopia, and KDE.
> 
> Other Comments:
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