Doom64EX-Plus on Flatpak

[mbugni]

I just created a Flatpak build for Doom64EX-Plus. Just for fun.

It works fine:

Maybe someone would take over this project and publish the app on Flathub. So it will be available for most Linux distro and possibly even for Steam Deck.

[atsb]

Nice! Thanks for that. I'm not really a package maintainer myself, but if someone wants to do it as an actual hobby, then I'll support them as best I can to make their lives easier.

[mbugni]

I'm not really a package maintainer myself, but if someone wants to do

Well, I could publish it. But I'm already maintaining other apps, and honestly I don't want too many things to manage.

I'll support them as best I can to make their lives easier.

Please, take a look at the manifest, the real build core. The relevant command is:

make CFLAGS="-DDOOM_UNIX_INSTALL=\\\"/var/data/doom64ex-plus\\\" -DDOOM_UNIX_SYSTEM_DATADIR=\\\"/var/data/doom64ex-plus\\\""

It would be nice, in order to better manage a sanboxed app, to have separate folders, like:

DOOM_CONFIG_DIR

It should point to user specific folder for mutable data (like configs, saved games etc).
For Flatpak it should be /var/config/doom64ex-plus.

DOOM_GAME_DATA_PATH

It sould be a list of directories where the engine can look for immutable data:

• mandatory game files (ie doom64ex-plus.wad and doomsnd.sf2)
• provided game files (eg DOOM64.WAD)

For Flatpak it should be /app/share/games/doom64ex-plus:/var/data/doom64ex-plus.

Using Flatpak, you can delivery immutable data in private folders (like /app/share/games/doom64ex-plus) but the user can access/modify some app-specific folder like:

• /var/config/doom64ex-plus matches $HOME/.var/app/io.github.atsb.Doom64EX-Plus/config/doom64ex-plus
• /var/data/doom64ex-plus matches$HOME/.var/app/io.github.atsb.Doom64EX-Plus/data/doom64ex-plus

[atsb]

Thanks for this, I will make those changes