[bug#73770] [PATCH 0/2] Add freedisksysrom

[Liliana Marie Prikler]

Am Freitag, dem 18.10.2024 um 17:18 +0900 schrieb Maxim Cournoyer:
> Hi Liliana,
> 
> Liliana Marie Prikler <liliana.prikler@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > Am Samstag, dem 12.10.2024 um 22:09 +0900 schrieb Maxim Cournoyer:
> > > This is a free BIOS implementation of the old Nintendo Famicom
> > > (NES) that replaces the nonfree, firmware blob 'disksys.rom'
> > > (extracted from the actual device).  It is useful with NES
> > > emulators such as jg-nestopia.
> > Perhaps we should add some dashes to make it "free-disksys-rom"?  I
> > wouldn't split "disk" and "sys" despite the camel case, but I'm in
> > the mood for kebab otherwise.
> 
> According to our naming convention (info '(guix) Package Naming'):
> 
>    [...] correspond to the lowercase conversion of the project name
>    chosen upstream, with underscores replaced with hyphens.  For
>    instance, GNUnet is available as ‘gnunet’, and SDL_net as ‘sdl-
> net’.
> 
> "freedisksysrom" is the correct name (camel case upstream names are
> simply converted to lower case)
> 
> > More importantly, is it expected that users can just install the
> > package and run with it or are extra steps needed to import it into
> > jg et al.?
> 
> Currently when you run for example jg-nestopia via jollygood (from
> the rgrf package), if you try loading a ROM that requires
> disksys.rom, it will let you know where it expects to find it
> ('~/.local/share/jollygood/bios/disksys.rom'), and you must manually
> copy/link such a file there.  I plan on making the integration
> between jg-nestopia and freedisksysrom seamless in a future
> (upstream) contribution to jg-nestopia.
SGTM then