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FS#58202 - [neverball] Fresh install of ver. 1.6.0 fails to save game settings

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Alexei Gordeev (KP1533TM2) - Wednesday, 11 April 2018, 14:58 GMT
Last edited by Antonio Rojas (arojas) - Friday, 13 April 2018, 15:13 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Antonio Rojas (arojas)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:
Fresh install of Neverball 1.6.0 from packages fails to save initial game configuration. Instead of creating ~/.neverball directory, it creates ~/.neverball file, leaving itself with no config directory, dumping neverballrc into ~ and consecutively failing to read it from there. Only initial setup is affected, it seems, since it works fine if I create the directory by hand before running the game.

I've tried to build and run latest version from GitHub (https://github.com/Neverball/neverball), and it doesn't have this problem.

Additional info:
* package version 1.6.0-2

Steps to reproduce:

1. Install neverball 1.6.0-2
2. Run, go to settings, enter name/change settings, etc
3. Exit out of the game. In ~, there's .neverball and neverballrc files
4. Run the game again, go to settings: all settings are set by default again
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Closed by  Antonio Rojas (arojas)
Friday, 13 April 2018, 15:13 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Additional comments about closing:  neverball 1.6.0-3
Comment by Doug Newgard (Scimmia) - Friday, 13 April 2018, 14:03 GMT
1.6.0 *is* the latest version. What did you run?
Comment by Alexei Gordeev (KP1533TM2) - Friday, 13 April 2018, 14:43 GMT
Both Arch package and Github version claim to be 1.6.0, but the latter accumulated quite some code changes since the Arch package was created.
Version from the Arch package ('pacman -Qi neverball') seems to be 1.6.0-2.
Comment by Doug Newgard (Scimmia) - Friday, 13 April 2018, 14:48 GMT
when you say "Github version" what are you actually talking about? Are you building from the HEAD of master or what?
Comment by Alexei Gordeev (KP1533TM2) - Friday, 13 April 2018, 14:50 GMT
Yes, the HEAD of the master. Just 'git clone' of repository then 'make', nothing else.
I'm not sure how frequently the tarball on the game's site gets updated, if at all, but it *seems* worryingly old, with all files seemingly having date of 21 May 2014.

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