Re: The problem of packaging Minetest mods/games

2020-05-20 Thread Jan
Hi, Thanks everyone for suggestions, I will check how it works in practice and look for the environment variables. Surprisingly I had an idea yesterday - what if we threat the minetest package as an interpreter, which it actually is, because it interprets lua scripts, while treating mods and

Re: The problem of packaging Minetest mods/games

2020-05-19 Thread Mike Gerwitz
On Wed, May 20, 2020 at 00:36:44 +0200, Leo Prikler wrote: >> Could we for example place the mods in the ~/.minetest/games folder? > That's not very functional of you. In theory, you can put stuff there, > but not using Guix. As an example, Stepmania reads all its > configuration, data and cache

Re: The problem of packaging Minetest mods/games

2020-05-19 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Jan writes: > The second problem I encountered during examining the package was every > time I changed the path of the minetest_game in the minetest-data > package minetest was also recompiled, which took long time. (I thought > the path is improper) > My question is, what is the Guix way of

The problem of packaging Minetest mods/games

2020-05-19 Thread Leo Prikler
Hello Jan, > And this package is in the propagated-inputs fiend of the minetest > package, but it doesn't work. > > I would like to understand why it doesn't work, fix it and learn > something new about Guix by the way :) My guess is, that minetest searches in /gnu/store/-minetest/share/...

Re: The problem of packaging Minetest mods/games

2020-05-19 Thread Julien Lepiller
Le 19 mai 2020 17:05:49 GMT-04:00, Jan a écrit : >Hello, > >Recently I decided to update the Minetest package, which isn't a >problem >itself, but I discovered the package fails to provide the default >minetest game. For those who don't know, Minetest is extensible by >desing - all you do is you

The problem of packaging Minetest mods/games

2020-05-19 Thread Jan
Hello, Recently I decided to update the Minetest package, which isn't a problem itself, but I discovered the package fails to provide the default minetest game. For those who don't know, Minetest is extensible by desing - all you do is you put a modification/game into a folder - usually