[Debian-lego-team] BrickOS-Bibo Project Updates

[Nicolas Schodet]

Hi Matthew,

* Matthew Sheets <mesheets at hotmail.com> [2025-05-08 16:39]:
> With the latest commits to brickOS-bibo, there are several new
> features that might be of interest to some.
> [...]
>  (2) Multi-kernel support: Working with kernels of different
>  configurations out of a single source tree or installation is now
>  possible.

This is nice!

> [...]
>  (4) Simpler building of *.lx programs: Building *.lx programs always
>  seemed to require a bit of Makefile familiarity.  To reduce the
>  barriers to adoption and use, a makelx script now exists that will
>  take the source file(s) to build as command-line arguments.  If only
>  one kernel is found locally, makelx will automatically use that
>  kernel; otherwise, the desired kernel can be specified on the command
>  line.

I prefer using a Makefile, but I suppose some people will like it.

I will have a problem with brickos and brickos-bibo, if I keep a package
for both, there will be a collision on the command names. Not sure how
to handle it yet. I think bibo is sufficiently different that having
both may be valuable, but maybe I am wrong.

> [...]
> The more I look at brickEmu environment configuration, the more I lean
> towards pulling it into the brickOS-bibo tree, as its hooks for
> enhanced support when using a brickOS or bibo clone require everything
> to be "just so" in order for all the integrations to work, so
> installation and setup currently ends up being a bit manual and
> brittle.  That will likely be a task for another day….

Could it be handled by having brickos/bibo install files needed by
brickEmu?



On the nqc front, I have a package ready for after trixie here:

https://salsa.debian.org/debian-lego-team/nqc/-/tree/experimental

I would be interrested for a new release with improvement on your main
branch.


Kind regards,

Nicolas.