Request for Review: nethack

[Luke Macken]

On Mon, Jul 11, 2005 at 04:13:10PM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
| On Sun, 2005-07-10 at 20:57 -0400, Luke Macken wrote:
| > Since /usr/share is for arch-independent data, everything except the
| > 'nethack' and 'recover' binaries would be able to go there.  Where do
| > you recommend these files go ?
| 
| Last time I checked, the data files weren't arch-independent. They vary
| not only with word size and endianness, but with other struct layout
| changes. Data files generated on i386 aren't usable on ARM, for example.

Ah, you're right.  I only really looked at the top part of the
datafile (nhdat), which is just plain text, but the bottom is most likely
arch-dependent data.  So shall we stick with /usr/games/nethack, or is
there are more suitable place for these files?

luke