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This just looks like someone compiled someone else's SDL project using Emscripten and uploaded it. Most of work was already done there: https://fragglet.github
by speps 3y ago
This just looks like someone compiled someone else's SDL project using Emscripten and uploaded it.
Most of work was already done there: https://fragglet.github.io/sdl-sopwith/ https://fragglet.github.io/sdl-sopwith/
Not even any commits in the fork, it's behind by 7 commits!
- midzer 3y agoI did not realize there IS an Emscripten port already, sorry. Nevertheless, I put build instructions in my fork here https://github.com/midzer/sdl-sopwith/tree/emscripten https://github.com/midzer/sdl-sopwith/tree/emscripten
- speps 3y agoThere wasn't one, but just build instructions don't make a Show HN.
- rendx 3y agoWhat makes you think that? I don't see that reflected in the rules. "Show" rules say nothing about how much effort one perceives someone put into something. To quote what I think are relevant rules for this discussion: "Show HN is for something you've made that other people can play with." - check "The project must be something you've worked on personally and which you're around to discuss." - check
- pvg 3y agoShow HN is for original work other people can try out and provide feedback. The bar to 'original' is pretty low (a non-trivial port meets it, a Learner's First Project usually meets it, etc) but a straight fork-and-recompile stretches the meaning of 'worked on' to the point of meaninglessness. You can't really respond to feedback if you didn't make the thing you're showhning.
- ricardobeat 3y ago"something you've worked on personally" pretty clearly does not cover pubolishing a completed project from someone else on a new platform.
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- speps 3y agoMy point was that it could have been a PR on the original repository, hosted by the original author, and that would have been a nice Show HN even if posted by the person who helped build it for the web. Contribute positively to a good project.
- ricardobeat 3y agoWould have been nice to share your emscripten build with the original project.
- dang 3y agoOk, I've added "via https://fragglet.github.io/sdl-sopwith/ https://fragglet.github.io/sdl-sopwith/" to the top text. I'm sure readers will appreciate looking at both. Thanks!
- Jeema101 3y agoI took this same port (SDL Sopwith) and ported it to Gamecube a number of years back [1]. It was surprisingly not that hard to do. As you said, most of the work was in the porting to SDL. The guy who did the SDL port was Simon Howard, by the way. [1] https://code.google.com/archive/p/gamecubesopwith/ https://code.google.com/archive/p/gamecubesopwith/