Re: Package renpy broken?

2022-10-29 Thread Wojtek Kosior via
> Hi Wojtek, thanks for your response and the useful links to learn how to > patch a package. No problem :) I have no doubt you would reach all the information anyway if you have just a bit of determination > [...] I do wonder about other users of Ren'Py - particularly whoever > packaged it firs

Re: Package renpy broken?

2022-10-29 Thread Luis Felipe
Hi Christian, It seems to be broken, yes... --- Original Message --- On Thursday, October 27th, 2022 at 06:58, Christian Gelinek wrote: > Dear Guix community, > > I couldn't get the GUI `renpy-launcher` GUI to do anything useful. Same for me (I'm using Guix System with guix 4716cea

Re: Package renpy broken?

2022-10-29 Thread Christian Gelinek
Hi Wojtek, thanks for your response and the useful links to learn how to patch a package. Once you grasp a bit of it, you should be able to define your own variant of the Ren'Py package. One without the bug. That would probably be the easiest fix, but I do wonder about other users of Ren'Py

Re: Package renpy broken?

2022-10-28 Thread Wojtek Kosior via
Hi Christian, I know nothing about Ren'Py and TFD but it seems there's an approachable workaround - you can modify the package to patch launcher/game/choose_directory.rpy to have a suitable directory used. First, I'd suggest you look at how some existing packages use the `substitute*` macro[1]. T

Package renpy broken?

2022-10-27 Thread Christian Gelinek
Dear Guix community, I couldn't get the GUI `renpy-launcher` GUI to do anything useful.  It says "The selected projects directory is not writable" for any meaningful action I attempted.  Under "preferences" -> General, there is a Projects Directory setting which (for me) displays as "Not Set".