A simple request (MkHexGrid) turned into ...

[Marius Schamschula]

Mkhexgrid has not been updated upstream since 2007.

Marius
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Marius Schamschula




> On May 14, 2022, at 9:20 AM, Michael <keybounce at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> So I thought I'd install a simple little hex map generator. Mkhexgrid.
> 
> Hasn't been updated in years, should be simple, right?
> 
> Three versions of Python (37, 38, and 39)
> A full reinstall of X
> 
> I mean, I can sort-of understand perl, one python, and ssl -- maybe it needed to rebuild something, and needed updated ssh fetching and rebuilding the compilation environment.
> 
> But everything else? And three versions of python? And not just python 2 vs python 3.
> 
> I'm assuming that somewhere, some graphical library was being used that could output to X as well as to ascii/curses. I just have no idea what. 
> 
> All I wanted was to generate a PNG hexmap.
> At least it was able to fetch binaries for pretty much everything, and not compile everything.
> 

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