Thanks! Indeed I didn't have lsb_release installed on my system. :S

That's a good thing, I wouldn't have thought about adding a warning without your report ;)

Hey Judas, I’m still waiting for your feedback on Arch support by ./play.it ;)

Hi all !

I’m improving the OS auto-detection system used by ./play.it (used to chose the best default package format).

If you want to help me with that, I would be very interested in the return of the three following commands on different Linux distributions: Don’t forget to tell me from which distributions you run them ;)

Arch Linux 64-bit
Kernel: 4.11.6-3-ARCH

The first two commands simply print 'arch', the third one doesn't work, since I don't have lsb_release installed. As you know, Arch doesn't include the package by default, and I honestly doubt many people have it installed themselves on their machines.

On both Ubuntu 14.04 (kernel 3.13.0-119) and Ubuntu 16.04.2 (kernel 4.4.0-81), I'm getting 'ubuntu' for all 3 commands.

Later tonight I'll post the outputs from my Arch box at home.

Thanks to both of you ;)

On Linux Mint 17.1 I'm getting

ubuntu
linux
linuxmint

The first one is a little disturbing, although Mint of course is loosely based on Ubuntu.

A little more than 'loosely based', I'd say. But anyway it doesn't matter for all intents and purposes of play.it, as both Ubuntu and Mint are Debian-based so it shouldn't matter to mistake one with the other.


PS: on my Arch machine, I'm getting 'arch' for all three commands (same kernel as Urnoev, also 64-bit). However, as you might remember, I only happen to have lsb_release installed because of play.it. :)

On Linux Mint 18.1 (kernel 4.4.0-81), I get:

linuxmint
linux
linuxmint

On MX-16.1 (Debian-based, kernel 4.7.0-0), I get:

debian
welcome
mx

With ./play.it 2.0.1, lsb_release will be tried only if /etc/os-release cannot be found.
And from the returns I’ve seen so far, it might as well mean never ;)

(I dropped the /etc/issue method in a recent commit, it seems unreliable)

New ./play.it version 2.0.1 is online, providing quite a lot of changes…

The library changes, with impact on all scripts:  
The list of scripts with new supported installers (usually new game updates):
• 140
• Aquaria
• Baldur’s Gate - Enhanced Edition
• Braid
• Crypt Of The NecroDancer
• Darkest Dungeon
• Pillars of Eternity
• Skullgirls
• Windward

Theses scripts should better handle WINE dependency on Debian-based systems:
• Anachronox
• Caesar III
• Dark Reign 2
• Desperados: Wanted Dead or Alive
• Emperor: Rise of the Middle Kingdom
• Heroes of Might and Magic III
• Heroes of Might and Magic IV
• Heroes of Might and Magic V

And there still are a couple updates:
• Botanicula
  Add missing dependency on libxml2
• Caesar III
  Run the game in a 1024x768 WINE virtual desktop to avoid messed up display on some large screens
• Crypt Of The NecroDancer
  Shorter dependencies list
  Add an optional icon pack providing the original game icon
• Darkest Dungeon
  Add persistent logging

Some scripts have been ported from ./play.it 1 to ./play.it 2, allowing to build Arch Linux packages for these games:
• Beyond Good and Evil
• Grim Fandango Remastered
• Jazzpunk
• Pirates!
• Psychonauts
• The Dark Eye: Chains of Satinav

Let’s finish with the best part, the list of new supported games:
• A Boy and His Blob
• Beholder
• Dark Echo
• Deponia 3: Goodbye Deponia
• Fotonica
• Fran Bow
• Hatoful Boyfriend
• Haven Moon
• Jotun
• Journey of a Roach
• Kentucky Route Zero
• Lumini
• Neon Drive
• Nihilumbra
• Ori and the Blind Forest
• Out There: Ω Edition
• Particulars
• Sentris
• The Book of Unwritten Tales
• The Dark Eye: Memoria
• The Night of the Rabbit
• The Stanley Parable
• The Whispered World
• TRI: Of Friendship and Madness
• War for the Overworld
• Whispering Willows
• Ziggurat

Let’s game ;)