Compatibility between platforms?
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If I set the savedir to be in my dropbox folder, should the same version of crawl be able to use the same save files on each OS / computer?
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That said, I've recently learned that Lua is getting compiled into the save itself and that that might cause problems, but that's all hear-say and I don't understand why, myself.
It's probably best if you guys try it and report your findings back here.
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I guess it would be easy to try. What I'm not sure about is how to change the default save location on my linux box. Is there an option that can be set, or does this need to be set when compiling the game?
- wait, never mind - I'll just delete the saves folder from usr/games/crawl/data/saves/ and make it a symlink to a saves folder in my dropbox!
I don't see why that wouldn't work! Then I'll be able to continue my games from any of my computers at any time!
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Did I miss something?
Edit: For completeness, just checked the exact build: 0.7.1-1-g7ce9b19 on both
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That's why I asked for the filenames, but you can check yourself. Create a new char with a different name in Windows and compare the filenames.
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Will try copying the savefolder just in case, danr, but I suspect this is where the problem is coming in.
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Wolfechu wrote:Yep, you're absolutely right. The Linux savefiles are <charname>-1000, the windows ones have no such suffix.
Doh. Somehow I completely forgot about that when claiming I was able to switch games without problems. I'd gotten so used to it that renaming saves in the process seemed entirely natural to me. Sorry about that! :/
Obviously this makes repeated switching between different OSes more annoying that it has any right to be.
On the upside, this won't be necessary for 0.8 anymore.
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