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I know it's sad to say, but aisleriot is the app that is keeping me from upgrading my n800 to the latest firmware. By chance does anyone know if the upgrade is in the works? Or, what would be needed?

Hehe...that is kind of sad.

Anyway, I believe they are in the process of porting it, but it currently is not available for OS2008, however. I'm sure it shouldn't take too long though.

do you know who "they" are and where did you read about this? I've been missing aisleriot too, so much so that I e-mailed the guy responsible for the OS2007 package yesterday, but didn't hear anything back yet.

I also tried building aisleriot for the Os2008 from scratch using the latest sources from gnome-games and version 1.6 of guile (the interpreted language the supplies the rules for the card games). It compiles with only minor changes to the source. However, it's a big job to make the debs becaues the gnome-games repo doesn't contain any of the packaging scripts and the game was split into several packages on OS2007.

Its really frustrating when packagers treat their debian packaging scripts as proprietary and don't supply them with the sources of GPLed software they are distributing.

Maybe they use the packaging of debian?
http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool...16.3-1.diff.gz

I looked at this package, it's a lot of dependencies... gnomethis gnomethat
Awfull

I stand corrected on the unavailability of gnome-games packaging. The packager replied to me and said his debian packaging scripts were in a diff (with the original) at

http://repository.maemo.org/extras/p...g/gnome-games/

will also need guile 1.6, which is available here (and elsewhere)

http://repository.maemo.org/extras/p...e/g/guile-1.6/

if noone else steps up, I'll package it...

Wow much less dependencies that debian's version (1 compared to maybe 10 requiring 10 more...)

Maybe the maintainer is interested to do it?
(typing 4 lines of commands)

Otherwise, I've currently already typed 3 of the 4 lines

Good to have guile I think.

Will take me more time. It's not only a rebuild. I've corrected few stuffs but there are still others to do

Somebody else can probably package it. Anyway it's quite well done, I'm only doing awfull hacks.

i originally pulled from gnome-games svn, built guile and apt-getted gnome-common and found the build straightforward, although i don't know if it would actually work on the device. the packaging on the other hand...

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Maybe the maintainer is interested to do it?
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said no. probably lack of time.

when i applied the patch no debian dir was created, but the control/rules file were created. did something
go wrong with patch? took a lot more than 4 steps (kinda like how fermats last theorem didn't quite fit in a margin!)

can use the os2007 package.

in other news i actually managed to build the package for OS2008. proceed under the assumption it is fundamentally broken. many hacks went into this...

what you need:

guile packages from the bora repo (they will work with OS2008)
http://repository.maemo.org/extras/p...e/g/guile-1.6/
libguile-ltdl-1, guile-1.6-libs, guile-1.6

Aisleriot card package from bora repo (works with OS2008)
http://repository.maemo.org/extras/p...es-extra-data/
aisleriot-card-theme-paris

optional help (works with OS2008)
http://repository.maemo.org/extras/p...g/gnome-games/
aisleriot-help-en or aisleriot-help-fr

and last but not least, the aisleriot binary package
NEWER v2.21
aisleriot: http://download.yousendit.com/540178E57BC914E4
OLDER v2.19
aisleriot: http://download.yousendit.com/249F3C9474F5193D
(apologies for the dodgy hosting -- if anyone wants to host it, go ahead and I'll update the link here)

known issues:
* the menu/taskbar icon for aisleriot is broken - you just see the generic application icon on the menu/taskbar (FIXABLE) UPDATE: (a reset might fix)
* partially working fullscreen UPDATE: on v2.21 full screen works from the view menu (maybe also works in 2.19)

What can I say... thank you! I will be upgrading today.