[ Suggestion ] Deprecate Minesweeper for Flower Field

Feels a lot like the green bottles re-implementation we did, also started by you @habere-et-dispertire :partying_face:.

As similar reasoning applies, I would be in favour of a similar PR that introduces a new exercise Flower Field and deprecates the old one (Minesweeper), in order to maintain integrity of mentoring sessions, commentary, links to solutions, and so forth, which all may refer to mines instead of flowers.

If there are two more maintainers who agree with this (and there are no big objections), feel free to PR it and tag those maintainers (including myself) for review for swift approval.

Thanks for bringing this up!

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I’m with DJ here: I hard agree on a new name, but think we should follow the green bottles vs beer song pattern. :smile:

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It is easy to agree on a name that is already used in Italy, I would think, as the Windows game is well known, internationally, even if it is known as a different name.

We can also give a link to bring awareness of the offending thing, lest it be forgotten, the Surgeon’s experience and want to make such things being laid a crime.

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I also very much support making the world a less militarised one. And I don’t care for the new name. @habere-et-dispertire Thanks for your suggestions!

Does this mean you don’t care what name is used? Or that you dislike the proposed name?

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I don’t care which name is used. I didn’t know this could be misunderstood…English is complicated for non-natives.

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English is weird. To “not care for” is a “polite” way of saying you dislike it.

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There are more than 3 maintainers in agreement @habere-et-dispertire . Feel free to open the PR and link it here so we can sign off.

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Flower field exercise icon
flower-field.cleaned

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Problem-specifications PR

Website-icons PR

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exercism/problem-specifications#2575 reopened.

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It was merged! <3

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Alright, I see a lot of tracks that implemented (and haven’t yet deprecated) Minesweeper.

37/49 Tracks Still Implementing Minesweeper
  1. ABAP
    AWK
    Bash
  2. C
  3. C#
  4. C++
  5. Cairo
  6. Clojure
    CoffeeScript
  7. Crystal
    Dart
  8. Delphi Pascal
  9. Elixir
    Elm
    Emacs Lisp
  10. Erlang
  11. F#
  12. Gleam
  13. Go
  14. Haskell
  15. Java
  16. JavaScript
    jq
    Julia
  17. Kotlin
  18. MIPS Assembly
  19. OCaml
  20. Perl
  21. Pharo
  22. PHP
  23. PowerShell
  24. Prolog
    Python
    Racket
  25. ReasonML
  26. Roc
  27. Ruby
  28. Rust
  29. Scala
  30. Swift
  31. Tcl
  32. TypeScript
  33. Uiua
  34. Unison
  35. V
    Vim script
    Visual Basic
  36. WebAssembly
  37. YAMLScript

Gonna do Python, just haven’t quite yet got around to it. Should be done in the next day or two. :grimacing:

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PR for bash

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Just merged changes for Julia.

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PR for Python.

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PR for awk

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PR for jq

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PR for CoffeeScript
PR for Dart
PR for Elm
PR for Emacs Lisp
PR for Racket
PR for Vim script
PR for Visual Basic

I’ll work on PRing C#, Erlang, F#, Gleam, and Ruby in the next couple of days.

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