[mupen64plus] 233/262: Add some end user information about the mupen64plus 2.0 vision

[Sven Eckelmann]

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commit f9c02a5ae1b1e6a16b1f7a31cfe72caf15dc95ba
Author: Sven Eckelmann <sven at narfation.org>
Date:   Sun Jul 24 14:19:31 2011 +0200

    Add some end user information about the mupen64plus 2.0 vision
---
 debian/NEWS      | 31 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 debian/changelog |  1 +
 2 files changed, 32 insertions(+)

diff --git a/debian/NEWS b/debian/NEWS
index 02ce1d0..aab58d2 100644
--- a/debian/NEWS
+++ b/debian/NEWS
@@ -1,3 +1,34 @@
+mupen64plus (1.99.4+1) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  mupen64plus was converted from a complete monolithic emulator to a modular
+  architecture [1] to create a more portable core. Therefore, the core is now a
+  library and not a GUI with included emulation cores. The mupen64plus
+  distribution only provides some basic plugins, a reference console frontend
+  and the core library.
+
+  Additional third party frontends [2] are necessary to get a GUI or special
+  functionality like configuration dialogs. Otherwise the new configuration
+  registry file "$HOME"/.mupen64plus/mupen64plus.cfg have to be edited by hand
+  to change the settings.
+
+  The input plugin provides an auto-configuration of input devices to help the
+  user to getting their joysticks and gamepads to work without editing the
+  configuration registry. Many joysticks aren't known yet, but it is still
+  possible to change the settings by manually [3]. It is recommended to forward
+  the new settings to the mupen64plus developers to get them included in future
+  releases.
+
+  Old settings aren't converted to the new configuration registry, but old
+  savestates from mupen64plus >= 1.5+dfsg1-2 should work without any problems.
+  Pre-2.0 plugins aren't supported by the emulation core due to a complete
+  changed plugin api.
+
+  [1] http://www.emutalk.net/threads/50098-New-release-Mupen64Plus-v1.99.1
+  [2] http://code.google.com/p/mupen64plus/wiki/ThirdPartyPlugins
+  [3] http://code.google.com/p/mupen64plus/wiki/ControllerSetup
+
+ -- Sven Eckelmann <sven at narfation.org>  Sun, 24 Jul 2011 13:54:44 +0200
+
 mupen64plus (1.5+dfsg1-2) unstable; urgency=low
 
   The used paths in which mupen64plus saves its data for every user was
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 0e2613b..66f79b5 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ mupen64plus (1.99.4+2) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
   * Update Vcs-* fields to new anonscm.debian.org URLs in debian/control
   * Fix spelling of "Flexible" in debian/control (Closes: #633693)
   * Mark all targets in debian/rules as phony
+  * Add some information about the mupen64plus 2.0 vision in debian/NEWS
 
  -- Sven Eckelmann <sven at narfation.org>  Wed, 16 Feb 2011 11:46:55 +0100
 

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