At the moment dev-games/aseprite, as is included in the portage tree, suffers from a few problems that are known by upstream devs. These include the inability to resize the window which severely hampers the use of the application. https://github.com/aseprite/aseprite/blob/master/INSTALL.md#linux-issues The solution by the aseprite developers was to fork and patch allegro-4.4. As far as I understand these patches have not been accepted upstream because development is continuing with allegro-5. Given the situation, would it make sense to include these patches in portage under the control of a custom useflag? Reproducible: Always
Hello. Situation about aseprite and allegro is bit complicated. Upstream said that allegro backend is outdated and will be removed in the future. Skia backed is still unsupported on Linux, and I'm afraid, after drop allegro support there will be no Linux support at all. I offered migrate to Allegro 5, where added resizing feature, but since allegro support outdated, this effort are useless. Adding resize-patch to system allegro has some problems. First, bundled version is not same as system 4.4.2. Second, it's hard distinguish exact changes for proper patch. I can to enable bundled allegro library via USE, but again, bundled version is not same as system 4.4.2, and there some QA issues exists.
In situations like this it seems best to have a 'bundled-libs' USE flag like we do for games on Gentoo. It's not perfect or even ideal, but if it's the difference between a working package and one that only half works, I think we should consider packaging software that works. Keeping it as a USE flag will allow for flexibility later when/if the build system or dependencies change. Marking as confirmed since I had the same problem with being unable to resize the window (with x11-wm/fluxbox-1.3.7-r3). I'd be willing to offer assistance in getting this USE flag to fruition if the proxy and/or their developer is willing.
(In reply to Azamat H. Hackimov from comment #1) > after drop allegro support there will be no Linux support at all. This is false. Skia backend support for GNU+Linux is scheduled for Aseprite 1.2, and deprecation of the Allegro backend is scheduled after that.
Created PR https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pull/2142
Unfortunately, Aseprite is now proprietary software: <https://github.com/aseprite/aseprite/commit/5ecc356a41c8e29977f8608d8826489d24f5fa6c>.
Not 1.1.7, only after it.
We should use https://github.com/aseprite-gpl/aseprite post-1.1.7.
commit c03d1e966a8455897002f7ab108877564af28947 (HEAD) Author: Azamat H. Hackimov <azamat.hackimov@gmail.com> AuthorDate: Tue Sep 6 23:20:11 2016 +0500 Commit: Patrice Clement <monsieurp@gentoo.org> CommitDate: Wed Sep 14 13:18:17 2016 +0200 dev-games/aseprite: version bump to 1.1.7. Added bundled allegro library support for resizing feature. Gentoo-Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/588832 Package-Manager: portage-2.2.28 Closes: https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pull/2142 Signed-off-by: Patrice Clement <monsieurp@gentoo.org> dev-games/aseprite/Manifest | 1 + dev-games/aseprite/aseprite-1.1.7.ebuild | 102 +++++++++++++++++++++ .../files/aseprite-1.1.7_type-punned_pointer.patch | 28 ++++++ dev-games/aseprite/metadata.xml | 1 + 4 files changed, 132 insertions(+) create mode 100644 dev-games/aseprite/aseprite-1.1.7.ebuild create mode 100644 dev-games/aseprite/files/aseprite-1.1.7_type-punned_pointer.patch Commited, thanks!
