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[REQUEST] Unix support - for us non-Windows users #9

Open DeanAyalon opened 1 year ago

DeanAyalon commented 1 year ago

The game is built on Electron, right? It should be possible to compile it into something other than DOS .exe

miaiam2006 commented 1 year ago

That would be wonderful if possible. I had the same issue (I play on a macbook, though I can also use linux when needed) and was going to post the same request. It was only a minor inconvenience before the client had exclusives, but now that it does, it's frustrating that I'm locked out of them.

miaiam2006 commented 1 year ago

This was my original suggestion, which I accidentally posted in the main pokeclicker repo, if you need more detail:

Current Behavior

The pokeclicker client, which I'd love to use, currently only comes in .exe form, meaning that it can only be run on a windows machine

Improved Behavior

The client comes in another format as well, such as .dmg, .zip, or even .jar if that would work easily enough

Reason for change

Currently, if you don't have access to the windows operating system (or emulators like WINE), you can't actually use the client. This was just a minor inconvenience when there weren't major differences, but now that the client is actually getting its own exclusives, it's really frustrating to learn that I can't get the new mon simply because I have a macbook. I can use both MacOS and assorted versions of Linux, but I don't have any way to access either Windows or WINE, so I can't use the client.

Detailed Description

I will admit that I don't know much about how .exe files work, but I know that they can't run on anything but windows, because that's the whole point: it's a windows program. File types like .dmg, .zip, or even .jar would make more operating systems able to play, which wouldn't harm the windows players and would give non-windows players equal opportunities in the game, rather than being barred off from client exclusives entirely.

marlalain commented 1 year ago

any updates on this?

RedSparr0w commented 1 year ago

Will likely push a linux version next update. And next update will be when the game next updates, probably 1-3 weeks from now.

ngoomie commented 2 months ago

Might be good to provide an AppImage in addition to/instead of a .deb, as AppImages (theoretically) work on all Linux distros and not just Debian/Ubuntu dervis