Package request: Inky editor

IFcoltransG commented 6 months ago

Project description

Inky is an editor for the Ink programming language which is used to write choice-based interactive fiction. It supports hot-reloading new code into a story live, while it's running. The Ink language is also used as middleware to manage textual dialogue in games.

It's a Electron app with Node.js. I tried to package it myself but I'm not competent enough with Nix yet.

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homepage URL: https://www.inklestudios.com/ink/ (for the Ink language)
source URL: https://github.com/inkle/inky
license: mit
platforms: linux (also supports MacOS and Windows)

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eclairevoyant commented 6 months ago

electron 4, and it's been abandoned for a year? Sorry, it's not really a good fit for nixpkgs.

Cybolic commented 6 months ago

For what it's worth, I packaged the binary release for my own use.

Also, from what I can tell, Inky is still seeing development (latest commit was today), but it's true that the last release is from 2022. Hopefully, we'll eventually see it upgraded to use a newer version of Electron.

eclairevoyant commented 6 months ago

If they're willing to upgrade electron to a recent version, say 29 or 30, we can reconsider adding this. Any interested party should ask upstream directly if they're willing to do so.

(PS when I closed this earlier, their last commit was in fact on Mar 24, 2023, i.e. over a year ago.)

moveonwasd commented 1 month ago

seems like they use electron 30 now

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Package request: Inky editor #309024