Bug#489319: RFP: gnome-inform7 -- a graphical tool for creating interactive fiction using natural language
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
The upstream developer is distributing from
http://www.inform-fiction.org/I7/Download.html
and already has a .deb form.
The Gnome interface is GPL.
The package requires Inform 6, which appears not to be free software,
although I can't find a license anywhere.
* Package name : gnome-inform7
Version : 5T18
Upstream Author : P.F. Chimento <philip.chimento@gmail.com>
* URL : http://www.inform-fiction.org/I7/Download.html
* License : GPL
Programming Lang: C or C++ is likely, but I do not know
Description : a graphical tool for creating interactive fiction using natural language
Inform is a design system for interactive fiction, a new medium for
writers which began with adventure games in the late 1970s. Since its
introduction in 1993, Inform has become a standard tool.
Three years in the making, Inform 7 is a radical reinvention of the
way interactive fiction is designed: In place of traditional computer
programming, the design is built by writing natural English-language
sentences.
An easily learned but flexible one-window user interface makes the
cycle of writing and testing rapid and painless. Inform creates,
manages, edits, indexes, tests, and even helps to publish works of IF
without fuss or screen clutter. Inform produces works playable on a
vast range of computers. Convenient publishing features include help
with drawing maps, producing websites, cover art, bibliographic data,
walkthrough solutions and more.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (50, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
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