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Open Feedback / QA Testing needed (Content Install Scripts)

« on: January 18, 2016, 11:40:43 pm »

I just need a few people to help me test, debug, and improve my content installation scripts for UFO and TFTD. I would like to include them in one of the nightlies fairly soon. They work on my machine, so I want to get a feel for how they work on other people's. This script arose out of my own personal work to install the content cleanly in an automated fashion, so don't expect it to be terribly refined yet.

No previous experience necessary. No scripting experience required, either, but it's a plus.

Requirements:

• Being able to build Openxcom Nightly (the scripts originally worked for 1.0, but with the dir structure change, I updated them)
• Bash shell (most probably on linux, but other unixlike OSes should work)
• Admin permission on your machine. Technically not required, but helpful for full testing
• You have the content for UFO and/or TFTD. Gotta have something to install, right?
• A basic understanding of how to record input and output for repeatability.

Obvious plusses would be a basic understanding of posix permissions, how to use sudo, and how to do basic bash scripting.

I'm also looking for ways to improve the process of installation, for instance, automatically picking out the XDG_DATA... stuff if the user doesn't override it (right now, it just defaults to .local/share/openxcom or /usr/share/openxcom depending on whether root is installing.)

If you're interested, respond here and let me know. It won't be a huge time commitment, I promise.