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Usually Windows applications are distributed through installers. So that's why I created one for this project! I'm using NSIS which is widely used open source installer. It would be great if this installer was available on the official website to make downloading and playing easier. I've attached zip containing my build, banner image and source file.

Hello odamite,

odamite {l Wrote}:Usually Windows applications are distributed through installers. So that's why I created one for this project! I'm using NSIS which is widely used open source installer. It would be great if this installer was available on the official website to make downloading and playing easier. I've attached zip containing my build, banner image and source file.

I think it's great, can't really test it under Linux.
I've ran the installer using wine and it looked good, I like the banner.
The installed version didn't run under Wine, but that's probably an issue with wine.

I think it could be placed on the site, but which version did you package?

Thanks for your contribution!

Thanks! It was 0.2 Windows build downloaded from SourceForge.

By the way it would be nice to have Me and My Shadow available in repositories on major linux distributions. It would bring this game to hands of many more people!

odamite {l Wrote}:By the way it would be nice to have Me and My Shadow available in repositories on major linux distributions. It would bring this game to hands of many more people!

That would be very nice , but I don't know if that is even possible.

Hello all,

odamite {l Wrote}:Thanks! It was 0.2 Windows build downloaded from SourceForge.

Ok, I'll add it when I find the time.

odamite {l Wrote}:By the way it would be nice to have Me and My Shadow available in repositories on major linux distributions. It would bring this game to hands of many more people!

I know, it's already going to good way.

Mandriva (Cooker): http://svn.mandriva.com/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/packages/cooker/meandmyshadow/
FreeBSD: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/games/meandmyshadow/

Perhaps I can try to get it in the openSUSE games repository, I'll see what I can do.

I know, it's already going to good way.

Mandriva (Cooker): http://svn.mandriva.com/cgi-bin/viewvc. ... dmyshadow/
FreeBSD: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/p ... dmyshadow/

Perhaps I can try to get it in the openSUSE games repository, I'll see what I can do.

That's already a great start! In the future I would like to Me and My Shadow in distros like Debian/Ubuntu and Fedora. I know it's not going to be easy but maybe we could somehow persuade some package maintainer to help us?

Hello odamite,

odamite {l Wrote}:That's already a great start! In the future I would like to Me and My Shadow in distros like Debian/Ubuntu and Fedora. I know it's not going to be easy but maybe we could somehow persuade some package maintainer to help us?

In the future I would like it pre-installed on Debian/Ubuntu/Fedora/openSUSE.

Yes, that would be great, I've already contacted packman repository.
Not the default openSUSE repositories but one almost every openSUSE user has.

I'm not sure what we can do about the other distros or how to contact them?

BTW, I've uploaded the installer to the sourceforge files.

Hey again!

Edward_Lii {l Wrote}:In the future I would like it pre-installed on Debian/Ubuntu/Fedora/openSUSE.

Me too!

Edward_Lii {l Wrote}:I've already contacted packman repository.
Not the default openSUSE repositories but one almost every openSUSE user has.

Nice, can't wait to see it go online!

Edward_Lii {l Wrote}:I'm not sure what we can do about the other distros or how to contact them?

Official repositories seem to have long process to get packages in. And you should already be a package manager to instantly upload packages. It's long process to become a maintainer as well. After some research I found a way to bypass this. A package request could be created. I don't know is this a faster way or not because there is already a long list. Anyway here's some links:
http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuDevelopment/NewPackages (Note Ubuntu packages are synced from Debian)
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Package_maintainers_wishlist

Edward_Lii {l Wrote}:BTW, I've uploaded the installer to the sourceforge files.

Nice! In the future I'd like to see both installer and an archive. Thanks!

Hello odamite,

odamite {l Wrote}:Official repositories seem to have long process to get packages in. And you should already be a package manager to instantly upload packages. It's long process to become a maintainer as well. After some research I found a way to bypass this. A package request could be created. I don't know is this a faster way or not because there is already a long list. Anyway here's some links:
http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuDevelopment/NewPackages (Note Ubuntu packages are synced from Debian)
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Package_m ... s_wishlist

I think it's best too leave this for now since the current release contains some non-free content.
Both the old font and the background music, this can cause some problems especially in the main repository of the distros.

Hopefully it will go better with V0.3.

Your right. So lets wait till 0.3!

Thinking of the future here's some more specific links for games:
http://wiki.debian.org/Games
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/Games

When the time is right we should chat with package maintainers on IRC and hope that some of them will get interested

By the way, when My & My Shadow will be ready for the next release?

Hello odamite,

odamite {l Wrote}:Thinking of the future here's some more specific links for games:
http://wiki.debian.org/Games
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/Games

Thanks for the links, we should keep them for when V0.3 comes out.

odamite {l Wrote}:By the way, when My & My Shadow will be ready for the next release?

We've always used the "release when ready" method so the same probably goes for version 0.3.
I also like the idea of "release early, release often", meaning that 0.3 would only contain the new menu theme or the level statistics.
But currently all of the following has been implemented (partially):

* New menu (still lots to do)
* Level statistics, system is in place only needs target numbers for current levels and a way to configure that using the level editor.
* Replay support has been started, this still requires some work.
* Input manager has been added, still needs a good interface to configure (joystick support can wait)

So I think we should focus on finishing theses tasks (and not adding new ones) followed by testings (release candidate) and then it's time to release V0.3.
I've no idea how long this will take.

Sounds like a plan. I think this will be the best My & My Shadow release so far!