Good question. The wiki seems like the right place to me but it's read-only now.
On Fri, 8 Apr 2016 at 11:36 Nikolay Amiantov <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I want to add some documentation on how to use our ioquake3 derivation. > This brings me to question on _where_ should I actually add it. Right > now we have: > > 1. Nix manual: completely unrelated to my topic; > 2. NixOS manual: primarily describes services and not packages and is > NixOS-oriented, while my article can be of interest to Quake-playing Nix > users in general; > 3. nixpkgs manual: oriented at developers and packagers (as it itself > points out). > > I would have added my article to the wiki, but AFAIK it's generally > decided to get rid of it. So, where should I place articles like this? I > would describe the general class of such documentation as "user-oriented > nixpkgs manual". > > I have some other documentation articles in mind that I would like to > write later (e.g. on steam-run), which go to the same category (I don't > mean "games" ^_^). > > On 04/08/2016 12:28 PM, Nikolay Amiantov wrote: > > I play ioquake3 successfully. It needs the following to work: > > > > 1. Extract pak0.pk3 file from the original Quake 3 Arena. > > 2. Use Nix script like this: > > > > { nixpkgs ? import <nixpkgs> { } }: > > > > let > > paks = nixpkgs.stdenv.mkDerivation { > > name = "quake3-arena"; > > pak0 = ./baseq3/pak0.pk3; # Replace this with path to your file > > buildCommand = '' > > install -D -m644 $pak0 $out/baseq3/pak0.pk3; > > ''; > > }; > > in nixpkgs.quake3wrapper { > > paks = [ paks nixpkgs.quake3pointrelease ]; > > } > > > > 3. Run `nix-build` on it: `nix-build script.nix` > > 4. `result/bin/quake3` would run the game. > > > > This probably needs to be added to our manual and/or improved somehow. > > -- > Nikolay. > _______________________________________________ > nix-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev >
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