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WeiDUorg / weidu

WeiDU is a program used to develop, distribute and install modifications for games based on the Infinity Engine.
http://www.weidu.org
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Is it possible to compile new weidu releases automatically, say, every 6-12 months? #223

Closed rubyFeedback closed 9 months ago

rubyFeedback commented 1 year ago

Is it possible to compile new weidu releases automatically, say, every 6-12 months?

Last release has been in 2021. I understand that not many things may have changed but I feel better with more recent weidu variants. Some mods cause issues and weidu has problems with these. Finding out what the root cause is is not so trivial.

For instance, lately, after installing many mods, when I start a new game, I see the hand (cursor of the mouse pointer) but the game is not loaded. So some mod blocks the loading somehow. I will eventually narrow it down to the mod that does so, but finding this out is not so trivial. A new weidu may be nice to have; I intend to use weidu from the commandline rather than depend on mods coming with weidu (this is also a problem, they always seem to want to carry their own weidu executable; would be better if everyone instead could go to the github repository here. There is even the old weidu homepage from 2009 still about!).

FredrikLindgren commented 9 months ago

Unfortunately not. WeiDU's build process is not amendable to automation. Additionally, development comes in fits and spurts, so it's not suitable for time-based releases.