What about a VegaStrike SVN Launcher?
Posted: Wed Dec 07, 2011 12:46 am
As title topic.
Here is my idea.
I play Minecraft and I found really smart that the guys just let you download a easy launcher which check the last available version for you, update the game ecc.
I think that VegaStrike SVN should have a little graphical auto-compiler for Linux, Windows and Apple too (I'm a Ubuntu user).
It should check as a first install if you have the required packages to compile the game, download it and compile it, after that it should be able to check the SVN server for updates and, if the vegastrike folder is updated, re-compile the game, all automatically.
It would be fine if it would have the vegastrike and vssetup button on it after the installation.
Pros for this idea. I think that the best thing in VegaStrike is that this game is continuously under development, so an automatic launcher would be easy to host in the most important repositories (Ubuntu, Fedora, OpenSUSE, AppStore, the future Windows 8 Store), the app itself would be something very simple and lightweight, in this way the game should have more visibility by comments, ratings ecc.
I hope I made my point clearly, do you think it's a total waste of time or something easy to do (I think it would be a great opportunity for VegaStrike to have more fans).
As I said I'm a Ubuntu user and this page gave me the idea...
http://developer.ubuntu.com/
What do you think?
EDIT
I completely forgot to say that the launcher should be a double version one, it would be nice if you have the possibility between the last stable version or the last SVN or even more experimental versions... like Spoutcraft (an alternate minecraft client) if you know what I'm talking about...
Here is my idea.
I play Minecraft and I found really smart that the guys just let you download a easy launcher which check the last available version for you, update the game ecc.
I think that VegaStrike SVN should have a little graphical auto-compiler for Linux, Windows and Apple too (I'm a Ubuntu user).
It should check as a first install if you have the required packages to compile the game, download it and compile it, after that it should be able to check the SVN server for updates and, if the vegastrike folder is updated, re-compile the game, all automatically.
It would be fine if it would have the vegastrike and vssetup button on it after the installation.
Pros for this idea. I think that the best thing in VegaStrike is that this game is continuously under development, so an automatic launcher would be easy to host in the most important repositories (Ubuntu, Fedora, OpenSUSE, AppStore, the future Windows 8 Store), the app itself would be something very simple and lightweight, in this way the game should have more visibility by comments, ratings ecc.
I hope I made my point clearly, do you think it's a total waste of time or something easy to do (I think it would be a great opportunity for VegaStrike to have more fans).
As I said I'm a Ubuntu user and this page gave me the idea...
http://developer.ubuntu.com/
What do you think?
EDIT
I completely forgot to say that the launcher should be a double version one, it would be nice if you have the possibility between the last stable version or the last SVN or even more experimental versions... like Spoutcraft (an alternate minecraft client) if you know what I'm talking about...