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PixelGuys / Cubyz

Voxel sandbox game with a large render distance, procedurally generated content and some cool graphical effects.
GNU General Public License v3.0
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Build process is still not straightforward #241

Closed archbirdplus closed 7 months ago

archbirdplus commented 8 months ago
  1. Rename run.sh to debug_run.sh.
  2. Rename run_release.sh to run_.sh.

This rename should make it more clear which script users should execute, without looking into them ("The normal run option appears to be some developer thing"). The default-looking option should be the happy path for the average end-user. It might also make sense to label the run scripts with the name of the OS.

  1. Add info errors for tech support, and progress meters. These can include:
    • checking compiler...
    • installing compiler...
    • building Cubyz (with optimizations)
    • Cubyz is ready!
    • Launching Cubyz.

These messages should help quickly identify common scenarios in #help-and-questions. They should also reduce newcomers' impatience with the build process. This might lead to a suggestion for the Zig compiler project.

IntegratedQuantum commented 8 months ago

Good idea. However I would prefer debug.sh because it's shorter. More feedback for the user would be really good: I'd also love to have progress bars for downloading/unzipping, but sadly the windows commands implemented it so poorly, that it made the whole download process ten times slower. So I had to disable it.

In future, hopefully we can implement a progress bar in the launcher #227