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CCP Snorlax
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Posted - 2016.05.18 13:27:18 -
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I need some volunteers to help me test a native Linux launcher. Note that this does in no way suggest that CCP is officially supporting Linux - this is just something I've been working on as a side project, and basically comes out of the work I've done for adding Wine support to the launcher for Mac.
So, what I've got working on my machine is a launcher built as a native application that downloads a version of Wine built by me, from the same source as the Wine version running on the Mac. This is still a bit rough around the edges, but I'm curious to see if it runs on your machines. Getting stuff to run on my machine is easy - deploying in the wild is often half the battle. Since we don't officially support Linux I don't have a lot of Linux machines to test on, hence my request for volunteers.
So far I've only tested on Ubuntu 15.10 and 16.04, so you have the best chance of this working if you're on a recent Ubuntu setup, but I'm also curious to find out how well this fares on other distros.
Rather than posting a download link here, I'd prefer a more controlled test to begin with. If you are interested in this, send me an EVE mail with the following info:
1) Your regular e-mail address
2) Specs of your machine, particularly the Linux version and graphics card information.
I'll e-mail you back a download link and instructions.
CCP Snorlax - Software Architect - Team RnB - @CCP_Snorlax - http://ccpsnorlax.blogspot.is/
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CCP Snorlax
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Posted - 2016.05.19 14:55:47 -
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Well, the point of a more controlled test was to allow me to get initial feedback before making this all public, but whatever.
The inclusion of libstd++6 was a failed experiment, I'd already taken that out again, I just forgot to update the version number the launcher wants to update itself to. That has been fixed now.
CCP Snorlax - Software Architect - Team RnB - @CCP_Snorlax - http://ccpsnorlax.blogspot.is/
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CCP Snorlax
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Posted - 2016.05.19 15:39:03 -
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Torgeir Hekard wrote:CCP Snorlax wrote:Well, the point of a more controlled test was to allow me to get initial feedback before making this all public, but whatever.
Ah, I just can delete my posts in that case if you want to.
Nah, no need for that.
CCP Snorlax - Software Architect - Team RnB - @CCP_Snorlax - http://ccpsnorlax.blogspot.is/
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CCP Snorlax
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Posted - 2016.05.19 22:28:58 -
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Thanks, everybody - so far the initial tests have been promising. I'll polish this up a bit and hope to post a download link next week.
CCP Snorlax - Software Architect - Team RnB - @CCP_Snorlax - http://ccpsnorlax.blogspot.is/
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CCP Snorlax
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Posted - 2016.05.20 09:59:31 -
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Rhyme Bittern wrote:The installation seems to create a directory named "EVE" right in my home folder. This is a bit of bad manners - the un-hidden directories in the home directory are for documents, music, downloads and the like, not for apps data. Can this directory be located in a hidden location in my home folder?
Besides that, I still get no sound with this (very nice) launcher.
That's a good point, hadn't really thought about where to store this. How about defaulting to ~/.eve and allow you to move it (as you can on Windows)?
CCP Snorlax - Software Architect - Team RnB - @CCP_Snorlax - http://ccpsnorlax.blogspot.is/
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