Bug 27817

Summary:	inform7, app for creating works of interactive fiction. NEW PKG REQUEST
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	fabio manunza <fabio.manunza>
Component:	New RPM package request	Assignee:	All Packagers <pkg-bugs>
Status:	NEW ---	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	Normal
Version:	Cauldron
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	x86_64
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://inform7.com/
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:		CVE:
Status comment:

Description fabio manunza 2020-12-14 12:31:12 CET

Inform 7 is a free app for creating works of interactive fiction, available for MacOS, Windows, Linux and Android. Inside it is a powerful programming language based on English language text.

http://inform7.com/

Inform is widely used as a medium for literary writing, as a prototyping tool in the games industry, and in education, both at school and university level (where Inform is often assigned material for courses on digital narrative). It has at various times ranked in the top 100 most influential programming languages according to the TIOBE index, most recently in 2019, and sometimes in the top 50.

What we now call Inform is properly Inform 7, but you still sometimes see references to a completely different, lower-level system called Inform 6. This is used as a means to an end lower down in the software stack, but writers can largely forget that it exists.

Jani Välimaa 2020-12-14 17:37:03 CET

Component: RPM Packages => New RPM package request

Comment 1 Lewis Smith 2020-12-14 20:42:00 CET

@fabio : thank you for raising this separate bug for this application.
Its download page
 http://inform7.com/downloads/
shows this is very dated: 7.9.3 (build 6M62) - December 2015
and mentions *64-bit* packages for Fedora 22 & OpenSUSE 13.2
but the site is complete (& nice) with a post Jun 7, 2020, so it is ongoing.

Assigning this package request to all packagers collectively. On a voluntary basis, one of them might, if there are no license or other legal issues, want to integrate it to the distribution and maintain it for bug and security fixes.

You fabio might also want to join the packager team to maintain this piece of software: see https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Becoming_a_Mageia_Packager

Assignee: bugsquad => pkg-bugs
URL: (none) => http://inform7.com/
Summary: Request for new RPM for Inform 7 => inform7, app for creating works of interactive fiction. NEW PKG REQUEST
Hardware: All => x86_64