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

[Elfyn McBratney]

Apologies for the typos in the subject and the submission header.
Should all be correct now.

Also, I'll keep the project in the pending queue for a couple of
days, if you can get us a tarball to review.  Otherwise, I'll
delete the request and you'll have to re-submit.

On Tue, Jul 27, 2004 at 12:01:43AM +0100, Elfyn McBratney wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm evaluating the project you submitted for approval in Savannah.
> 
> On Thu, Nov 27, 2003 at 05:56:46PM -0500, address@hidden wrote:
> > 
> > A package was submitted to savannah.nongnu.org
> > This mail was sent to address@hidden, address@hidden
> > 
> > 
> > strk <address@hidden> described the package as follows:
> > License: gpl        
> > Other License: 
> > Package: SINS
> > System name: sins
> > Type: non-GNU
> > 
> > Description:
> > Sins Is Not Snake (SINS) is a videogame written as a learning-C project.
> > It can be played by 0 to 10 players, any of which can be a computer
> > player. It has a modular interface for both players implementations (has
> > human and AI modules for this) and user interfaces (has dumb,ansi,curses,
> > vgalib and X interfaces). It has been developed with portability and
> > low-tech in mind. Its status is *always experimental*. 
> >
> > Other Software Required:
> > You can compile the code to use only the C library, but in this case the
> > interface would be very bare (the dumb interface). If your terminal is an
> > ANSI terminal you'll be able to use the ansi interface instead, which is
> > still libc-only but nicer. The curses interface (the first implemented -
> > thus stabler) needs the (n)curses library and headers. If you want to use
> > a command line line editor you'll also need readline (optional). The X
> > interface will need just the Xlib and header files. The vga interface (vga
> > and vga2) works with vgalib, which is a linux-only library for direct vga
> > access. X and vga* interfaces share a custom sprites definition format. 
> >
> > Other Comments:
> > I've submitted this project for inclusion in the GNU project. It has been
> > rejected due to the availability of a better-looking snake-like game.
> 
> Please register your project again and include an (temporary) URL
> pointing to the source code.  The description you gave when
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> Regards,

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Elfyn McBratney

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