Subject: Re: pkg/7968: games/xscrabble submission
To: None <mcmahill@mtl.mit.edu>
From: Simon Burge <simonb@netbsd.org>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 07/13/1999 10:17:55
mcmahill@mtl.mit.edu wrote:

> >Number:         7968
> >Category:       pkg
> >Synopsis:       games/xscrabble submission
> 
> >Description:
> 
> I've made a package for the game xscrabble.  Its a simple X windows
> clone of the popular board game.
> 
> package source is at
> 
> http://www-mtl.mit.edu/~mcmahill/netbsd/xscrabble-1.0-pkgsrc.tar.gz
> 
> seems to install/deinstall correctly,
> pkglint -a -b -c -N
> passes.  It does warn of the use of the absolute pathname "/var/games" for
> the install of the high-score file.  I did not include the high score file
> in PLIST as it will constantly change.

You may want to look at some of the games packages I've done
(games/moria and games/zombies) and how I've handled the score
file there.  No one has complained about this method so far :-)

Simon.