Re: Sample Godot game packaging (upstream feedback)

Hi,

I went to Godot's new chatroom and asked for their thoughts.
https://chat.godotengine.org/channel/devel

Some points:

- Godot tries to maintain compatibility but there's no hard guarantee, 
and incompatibilities may reveal themselves late in a game run. So it 
would be good to track what Godot version each game was meant for 
(precisely, like 3.2.3).
Multiple Godot packages (godot3.2-runner, etc.) could be an option.

- Godot may come with engine extensions (which should be compilable as 
separate .so), GDNative (which are basically .so embedded in the .pck) 
and Mono scripts (.NET C# modules).

- Mono modules will need a Mono-enabled version of the godot3 package, 
and may have incompatibilities of their own if the game is built 
before/after Godot with a different Mono version (but to a lesser extent 
than having a different Godot version entirely).

- godot3-server is a bit of a mix between what they call "godot 
headless" (platform=server, for game servers) and an unattended build 
environment (with tools=yes); it was a bit confusing but should work.
(also the X11 version currently doesn't work with no $DISPLAY)

Cheers!
Sylvain

On 09/02/2021 14:01, Sylvain Beucler wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Following the thread at [1] I noticed we don't have a sample Godot 
> package for new contributors to copy^Wstudy from. I went ahead and wrote 
> an initial package for Godot's tutorial game "Dodge the Creeps!":
> 
> https://salsa.debian.org/games-team/dodge-the-creeps
> 
> It takes the source repository and generates an arch-independent Debian 
> package with a .pck file for godot3-runner, as well as system menu and 
> software center entries. It took longer than I thought, so I expect this 
> will come in handy :)
> 
> I want this to be a collegial effort, so please test, review and write 
> suggestions. This is about newcomer-friendly packaging -- let's aim at 
> simplicity and keep pet peeves [2] under control ;)
> 
> Cheers!
> Sylvain
> 
> [1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-games/2021/02/msg00004.html
> [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:No_pet_peeve_wars