Bug#456037: Fenix: not 64 bit clean, should it be out of Lenny?

[Miriam Ruiz]

2008/12/13 Steve Cotton <steve0001 at s.cotton.clara.co.uk>:
> On Sat, Dec 06, 2008 at 12:52:41PM +0100, Peter De Wachter wrote:
>> retitle 456037 fenix: not 64 bit clean
>> severity 456037 grave
>> thanks
>>
>> The Fenix source code is riddled with the assumption that pointers are
>> 32 bit, which is obviously not true on 64 bit systems. A big problem is
>> that the bytecode assumes 32 bit pointers. So either the bytecode
>> format needs to be changed, or the interpreter needs a translation layer
>> between VM pointers and native pointers
>
> Fenix isn't in Etch.  Dropping it from Lenny would remove a
> game, and a related framework (this seems to be the complete
> list):

Unless we find a way to make it work in 64 bits, either we reduce the
arch to i386 only -which is something I don't like doing at all-, or
we remove it from Lenny. I'm not exactly sure that the code is of a
very high quality. It's a pity for pixfrogger, but maybe porting it to
python or C++ would be easier than to fix Fenix XD

Probably removing it from Lenny unless we find a non-very-difficult
way to solve it would be the best.

Greetings,
Miry