Thursday, August 01, 2024

NEW WIP: games/prismlauncher

Heyo ports@,

Saw that games/blockgame's maintainer stopped using OpenBSD and
recommended having PolyMC ported to go forward with Minecraft on
OpenBSD. After a little cursory research, the dev team seems dubious at
best. I say this as they nuked most of their contributors' commit perms
over a silly sociopolitical issue.

Politics aside, I don't wanna support a project that is comfortable
nuking their developers just like that.

PrismLauncher seems to be formed by the same people who got nuked from
PolyMC. I have used it over on the other *NIX system and it works quite
well from my experience.

OpenBSD throws a fit with lwjgl/3 so I included some wrapper runtime
scripts for launching with the various jdk versions. (see pkg/README)

Anyways, I would love to have some more testing done on this. Any
grabbers?

Port tarball is attached.

Thanks!

--
-iz (they/them)

> i like to say mundane things,
> there are too many uninteresting things
> that go unnoticed.

izder456 (dot) neocities (dot) org

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