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Unvanquished / updater

QML based updater to install, update and launch the Unvanquished game.
https://unvanquished.net/download
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Allow option for nightly engine build #127

Open cu-kai opened 1 week ago

cu-kai commented 1 week ago

With the recent work being done on CI for the engine, is there a possibility we could introduce nightly builds players could optionally use (with the usual warnings of dragons ahead when enabling such an option)? That way the players can feel the upstream improvements without having to wait a long time (read: years) for a stable release?

slipher commented 1 week ago

For engine only?

cu-kai commented 1 week ago

We could do gamelogic too if you like, but the engine is the most important part as the maintained servers provide more up to date gamelogic anyway.

With the engine it's a simple case of replacing the executable. The gamelogic would require additional dpks to be downloaded each day which could quickly flood users' hard drives. I'm not sure how desirable that is unless you can find at way around this current limitation. As far as I know, the updater doesn't currently remove old dpks.

cu-kai commented 1 week ago

Just to be clear, I think providing nightly engine builds only would be preferable.