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Any plans to package Angband in the .snap format (http://www.snapcraft.io)?
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Short answer: What's .snap format?
(Goes away and looks at it)
Longer answer: Looks like a good idea. There are (as far as I'm aware) no current plans to do so, but if you (or anyone else) were volunteering, that would be great
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I took a crack at it, but since I have no experience with packaging, I've hit some major roadblocks. Namely, I managed to package angband as a snap, but not to make it work within the sandbox.
I'll ask at the snap mailing list, hopefully they will be of help.Comment
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I did not get any reply from the mailing list, but I think the problem lies in the way Angband handles paths during compilation.
As far as I can see, Angband expands the path arguments into absolute paths. That makes it not possible to have a system-wide installation with each user having their saves in $HOME, because it just gets expanded to /home/currentuser/.
But more importantly for making a snap, the --with-no-install compile option does not make Angband run in-place, as it claims, but rather from the directory it was compiled in. So moving/renaming the Angband folder after compilation leaves it unable to start. Personally I would consider that a bug.
The easier solution would be to make Angband compiled with --with-no-install look for its files in the directory it's being run from.Comment
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