gentoo ebuild

[nighlt]

hi,
i want to make an gentoo ebuild, so opentyrian can easily be installed in gentoo, but i have some issues there.
1. can you release a source tarball so not every time the svn has to be checked out?
2. its standard that the tyrian binary resides in /usr/games/bin but the data files are in /usr/share/games. is it possible to patch the code? and it would be good if the settings could be written to ~/.opentyrian/ or something because in /usr/share is not writeable for the user.

ok this doesnt belong to the gentoo stuff but will it be possible to play tyrian2000 at a later time?

thanks!

[yuriks]

1.A release isn't planned at the moment but could be done. In the meanwhile you can package the source yourself if you want.
2.We don't have support for that now, but if you implement it, feel free to submit a patch (preferably with paths configurable on the makefile)

42. Maybe, but it's very low on the priority list (Lower than "procrastiate") since Tyrian2k is generally regarded as a poor add-on.

[Mindless]

2. that's on my TODO list

Tyrian 2000 support is not planned, as none of the devs like Ep 5 and no one else has offered to add support.

edit: ~/.opentyrian/ is now used for the UNIX target as of revision 738

[nighlt]

hm... i tried the newest svn.
1.but if i try to save now this happens:

Failed to write save/tyrian1L.sav

and .opentyrian isnt created.
2.and another question: which license are the data files for tyrian .
3.for the paths patch: ill have a look but its not so easy for me.

[yuriks]

Ah, you would be using Enhanced, I don't think Mindless commited the patch to it. You'll have to wait until I port the patch over.

As for the datafiles, they aren't under any formal license, AFAIK, they're just freeware.

[nighlt]

gcc 4.1.2 doesnt like this here:
src/BindManager.cpp:124:3: error: no newline at end of file
src/GameActions.cpp:58:2: error: no newline at end of file
src/HighScores.cpp:176:23: error: no newline at end of file
src/loudness.cpp:271:2: error: no newline at end of file

but if i fix it, works again. but still no port of the savegame patch to enhanced right?