packaging resources

[fabio]

I am attaching some files from debian package that may be useful to other distributions and that could eventually included in the 0ad source:

• 0ad.desktop : desktop file for menu (it assumes the executable is in /usr/lib/games/0ad/system/pyrogenesis )
• 0ad.png : png icon file (converted from upstream ps.ico and optimized with optipng and advdef)
• 0ad : script that call /usr/lib/games/0ad/system/pyrogenesis to easily run the game from terminal
• 0ad.6 : man page with options taken from upstream readme.txt

Update (2012-04-10):

• an updated png (maybe too big) is available, see http://www.wildfiregames.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=15902
• updated man page (0ad.6) based on updated and now more complete readme.txt is available at ​http://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/pkg-games/packages/trunk/0ad/debian/

[fabio]

If you want to include the man page remove the debian copyright section at the end (last 6 lines, I am the author).

[philip]

(In [7882]) Add resources for Linux packages, based on files from fabio (see #492)

[Sergio Fabian Vier]

updated resources

[Sergio Fabian Vier]

Replying to philip:

(In [7882]) Add resources for Linux packages, based on files from fabio (see #492)

updated resources: updated script file and altas support for desktop files menu.

[Philip Taylor]

Hmm, I had wondered about adding an Atlas .desktop entry but I'm not sure it's a good idea - the editor is available fairly prominently from the game's main menu (since a month ago), so another entry point is not really necessary, and it's nice to avoid cluttering the user's programs menu (unlike on Windows where we've already got a whole subfolder to contain whatever we want).

We ideally shouldn't have a shell script wrapper at all - currently it's only there because on some systems we try to detect the executable's location at runtime and fail if it was run via PATH, so we have to run it from an absolute path instead. So I'd prefer to avoid adding any complexity to the script, and features like --help should be added to the C++ code instead (so they'll work when the PATH thing gets fixed).

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Milestone Unclassified deleted

[fabio]

Can the man page and the translation of desktop file:

Comment[it]=Videogioco strategico in tempo reale di guerre antiche

be merged?

[Philip Taylor]

I skipped the translation since it seemed weird to only have [it] and not any other languages - eventually we'll need to some proper translation process set up for the game, and that can be used for the desktop file too.

But I suppose that's a rubbish reason not to include this translation already.

I skipped the man page since I wasn't sure how accurate it was (it's based on readme.txt which doesn't seem very accurate), so I didn't want to add it yet, but then I didn't get around to checking/updating it. If it's going to list command-line arguments then I'd prefer the list to be much more complete (which probably involves searching the code for all the uses of CmdLineArgs). Ideally it should mention config files too (i.e. where to look for default.cfg, and where to write local.cfg to override settings). Something like that would be great :-)

[philip]

(In [8310]) Add translation to desktop file (see #492)

[fabio]

I'll retarget for alpha 10 since updated files that can committed are now available and because an user complained on the forum about low icon quality ( see http://www.wildfiregames.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=15902 ).

[Kieran P]

Marking this as fixed. I don't think Trac is the right place to store files. Once the new website is done, we should make a resources/media section for this sort of thing.

[ben]

In 11613:

New higher quality icons. Fixes #954. Refs #492.

[historic_bruno]

If this ticket still has relevant info, maybe move the content to a Trac page? (you can still attach files)

[Vincent Cheng]

Currently, the script that calls pyrogenesis (build/resources/0ad.sh) hardcodes the path to the pyrogenesis binary (/usr/bin/pyrogenesis), which means that Linux distros which install game binaries to /usr/games (i.e. Debian & Ubuntu) end up having to patch the file. Instead of hardcoding the path, I propose the following patch, which looks for the first instance of pyrogenesis in the user's PATH and runs that. The patch below also modifies build/resources/0ad.desktop to use a relative path for the Exec= field rather than a hardcoded path.

--- a/build/resources/0ad.sh
+++ b/build/resources/0ad.sh
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
 #!/bin/sh
 
-/usr/bin/pyrogenesis "$@"
+path_to_pyrogenesis=$(which pyrogenesis)
+if [ -x "$path_to_pyrogenesis" ] ; then
+	"$path_to_pyrogenesis" "$@"
+else
+	echo "Error: pyrogenesis cannot be found in $PATH"
+	exit 1
+fi
--- a/build/resources/0ad.desktop
+++ b/build/resources/0ad.desktop
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 Name=0 A.D.
 Comment=A real-time strategy game of ancient warfare
 Comment[it]=Videogioco strategico in tempo reale di guerre antiche
-Exec=/usr/bin/0ad
+Exec=0ad
 Icon=0ad
 Terminal=false
 Type=Application

[Kieran P]

I've split this into another ticket rather than reopen this one. See the new one at #1424