Dear Guix community,
I couldn't get the GUI `renpy-launcher` GUI to do anything useful. It
says "The selected projects directory is not writable" for any
meaningful action I attempted. Under "preferences" -> General, there is
a Projects Directory setting which (for me) displays as "Not Set".
Clicking that again shows the above error.
I'm new to Ren'Py (and GuixSD), so there may be a way of specifying this
directory on the command line or via a config file somewhere, but I
haven't found it.
Looking at the code at
https://github.com/renpy/renpy/blob/master/launcher/game/choose_directory.rpy
it seems that it tries to import the `_renpytfd` Python package, which -
if successful - would be used to display a `selectFolderDialog`.
Otherwise, it would try to use the parent directory and if that fails,
the directory specified in config.renpy_base, which is set to the empty
string. Interestingly the empty string should resolve to the current
directory, but that doesn't seem to be the case in my `renpy-launcher`
context.
Another thing I found is that `_renpytfd` is being removed from the
renpy package in
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/tree/gnu/packages/game-development.scm#n1347
which probably is the reason for why I can't set the path in the GUI.
The comment says "drop _renpytfd, as there are missing sources" but
https://sourceforge.net/projects/tinyfiledialogs/files/ seems to
disagree with that. Additionally, there is a Guix package
rust-tinyfiledialogs which I expect to also (at least indirectly) depend
on tinyfiledialogs, which is not a package.
Where to go from here?
- Package renpy broken? Christian Gelinek
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