From: Stefan Sperling <stsp@stsp.name>
Subject: Re: got for MacPorts
To: grey <artkiver@gmail.com>
Cc: gameoftrees@openbsd.org
Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2022 11:03:21 +0200

On Thu, Jun 02, 2022 at 12:05:22AM +0000, grey wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> I realize that while I apprised some individuals on IRC of making a
> Portfile for got for MacPorts a while ago, I never subscribed to nor
> informed those on the mailing list about its presence. So, this email is an
> effort to rectify that oversight on my part.
> 
> I started with version 0.69 and have since updated it to 0.70. Admittedly,
> I don't have commit access to MacPorts, so I am reliant upon others for
> merging my pull requests. There's no maintainer listed either, but barring
> unforeseen circumstances, I will presumably continue to submit updates as
> they are available, though of course others are welcome to volunteer as
> maintainers if they should desire to do so!
> 
> The MacPorts page related to it may be found here:
> 
> https://ports.macports.org/port/got/

Thanks! I very much appreciate this. There have been a few requests
by people for a version that runs on MacOS and it is nice to see that
it is available in macports for easy installation.

> Attached is a diff with a couple of proposed changes to
> https://gameoftrees.org/portable.html which reflect the availability of the
> MacPorts version.

I see two issues with this patch.

I don't want to link to apple.com/macos from gameoftrees.org as it could
be interpreted as an endorsement. We have more than enough advertisement
for corporations on our planet already, and the non-profit ISP which hosts
our site has a strict non-commercial policy (unclear if it extends to such
links, but there is no reason to try and test their limits of tolerance;
this whole ISP is run by volunteers in their spare time).

Second, adding a link to macports in the separate ports section is wrong
in context because those separate ports are not using got-portable as
their base. Rather, they are based on the OpenBSD version of got.

Regardless, I believe it would be a good idea to link to the page of your
macports package. There are other systems as well that have packaged
got-portable, visible here:
https://repology.org/project/got-game-of-trees/information
Perhaps we should add a section to portable.html which points people to
pre-built packages, to save them the effort of compiling from source?