Implement deploy subcommand

[ebkalderon]

See the relevant wiki page for a description of how the deployed game should look like. This issue is a dependency of #2.

[White-Oak]

Bad idea to keep saves in a game folder

[White-Oak]

Bad idea to keep saves in a game folder

[ebkalderon]

@White-Oak Could you please elaborate? Keep in mind that the deployed folder contains everything that should be put into the installer. Assuming that the published game is placed in C:\Program Files\<name>, where would you prefer these save files be placed instead? Perhaps in something like AppData/Roaming/mygame on Windows or ~/.mygame/ on Linux?

[ebkalderon]

@White-Oak Could you please elaborate? Keep in mind that the deployed folder contains everything that should be put into the installer. Assuming that the published game is placed in C:\Program Files\<name>, where would you prefer these save files be placed instead? Perhaps in something like AppData/Roaming/mygame on Windows or ~/.mygame/ on Linux?

[LucioFranco]

I know on mac a lot of games like EU4 put game saves in the documents folder. Like ~/Documents/Paradox/EU4/Saves etc.

[LucioFranco]

I know on mac a lot of games like EU4 put game saves in the documents folder. Like ~/Documents/Paradox/EU4/Saves etc.

[White-Oak]

The common practice today is to put saves somewhere in home, On windows it is commonly ~/Documents/game_name or ~/AppData/Roaming/game_name. Moreover, on Windows 10 you are prohibited to write into Program files if you're not running from administrator, which is a bad practice.

[White-Oak]

The common practice today is to put saves somewhere in home, On windows it is commonly ~/Documents/game_name or ~/AppData/Roaming/game_name. Moreover, on Windows 10 you are prohibited to write into Program files if you're not running from administrator, which is a bad practice.

[ebkalderon]

That makes sense. Applications should be "good citizens" regardless of the platform they are running on, so it follows that we follow their standards. How does the following scheme seem to you?

• Windows/OS X: ~/Documents/game_name/
• Linux/BSD: ~/.game_name/

In addition to these defaults, this location could also be configurable from config.yml, if people want. I can update the wiki page to reflect these changes accordingly.

[ebkalderon]

That makes sense. Applications should be "good citizens" regardless of the platform they are running on, so it follows that we follow their standards. How does the following scheme seem to you?

• Windows/OS X: ~/Documents/game_name/
• Linux/BSD: ~/.game_name/

In addition to these defaults, this location could also be configurable from config.yml, if people want. I can update the wiki page to reflect these changes accordingly.

[White-Oak]

@ebkalderon how about ~/.local/share or $XDG_DATA_HOME if it is set on Linux? Afaik, Linux games use that for saves.

[White-Oak]

@ebkalderon how about ~/.local/share or $XDG_DATA_HOME if it is set on Linux? Afaik, Linux games use that for saves.

[ebkalderon]

@White-Oak Sure. Let me look up the standard on XDG real quick so we can be sure we're using it right...

Edit: It looks like there is $XDG_DATA_HOME for user-specific data files and $XDG_CONFIG_HOME for user-specific config files (source). Should we select one of the two, or use both?

[ebkalderon]

@White-Oak Sure. Let me look up the standard on XDG real quick so we can be sure we're using it right...

Edit: It looks like there is $XDG_DATA_HOME for user-specific data files and $XDG_CONFIG_HOME for user-specific config files (source). Should we select one of the two, or use both?

[White-Oak]

@ebkalderon I suppose DATA_HOME suits us more

[White-Oak]

@ebkalderon I suppose DATA_HOME suits us more

[ogoding]

@ebkalderon I just saw this discussion, I'll remove the auto create of the saves directory.

[ogoding]

@ebkalderon I just saw this discussion, I'll remove the auto create of the saves directory.

[White-Oak]

Should probably be closed as #23 was merged.

[White-Oak]

Should probably be closed as #23 was merged.

[ogoding]

@ebkalderon An issue for the saved data discussion should be raised I think. I'm not sure if it should be in the engine or this repo, otherwise I'd create it myself.

[ogoding]

@ebkalderon An issue for the saved data discussion should be raised I think. I'm not sure if it should be in the engine or this repo, otherwise I'd create it myself.

[ebkalderon]

@ogoding I think we should create a new issue for that. I'll close this one in the meantime.

[ebkalderon]

@ogoding I think we should create a new issue for that. I'll close this one in the meantime.