Debian package for inksmoto

[Petter Reinholdtsen]

[Gorse Emmanuel]
> Hello,
>
> I'm indeed the author of inksmoto. But it has been seven years since
> the last release and I didn't touch the code ever since...

Does this mean you settled down and do not play xmoto so much any more?
It is that way with me, but my kids seem interested. :)

> For what I remember the Debian package for Inksmoto was very simple
> back then, it had the Inkscape plugin directory hard coded in it and
> it would just copy the Inksmoto files in it.

Well, it seem to be the way to do it, so the build rules I created do
almost the same, except it put the documentation in the right place and
drop the vcs files from the binary package. :)

> The last version of Inkscape that I've tested Inksmoto with was
> 0.48.2, and now they are at version 0.92.1, I don't know if Inksmoto
> still even works with the new version... (In Inksmoto I'm only
> implementing a subset of the SVG specification, just enough to
> interpret the SVG files produced by Inkscape, and maybe they are now
> using more stuffs of the spec and produce SVG files not handled by
> Inksmoto (they did it between 0.47 and 0.48 for example)).

The menu entry seem to show up with inkscape 0.48.5-3 in Debian Jessie,
at least.  Have not tested it with later versions.

> For the lack of figures on the wiki I've just tested and they are
> displayed: [image: Inline image 1]

Strange.  Now I see the images too... :/

> I'm adding Nicolas to the email, he was developing Xmoto with me back
> in the days.

Very good.  Are any of you interested in maintaining the package in
Debian?  I can help with the packaging stuff, but do not know enough
about xmoto or inkscape to handle any problems discovered in the
funtionality of the package.

To test the package, clone
<URL: https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/collab-maint/inksmoto.git > and
run 'gbp buildpackage'
-- 
Happy hacking
Petter Reinholdtsen