Erotes

Erotes is a LÖVE (love2d) project manager on Linux. It is meant to manage:

• creating an empty project template using chosen LÖVE version
• running the development version of the project
• exporting the project to .love file as well as Linux and Windows executable format

Usage

Syntax:
 erotes [options]

Available options:
  -s,    --start               starts the new project                  
  -r,    --run                 runs the project currently in development
  -e,    --export              exports the currently developed project 

Dependencies

• python3.5+
• libarchive
• python-libarchive-c
• pyinstaller (for building)

On Ubuntu 18.04, these dependencies can be installed by running:

sudo apt-get install python3 libarchive13

sudo pip3 install libarchive-c pyinstaller

Building

Run:

python3 build.py

Status

Starting, running and exporting the project are all already implemented. Needs working out the details.

Todo

• update everything to work with LÖVE 11.0 11.3
• in general support for multiple LÖVE versions could be done
• platform exports should put game files into folder before packaging
• export project files that aren't in .love file to platform exports (like readme)
• bundle libarchive with the erotes pyinstaller build
• support for Windows and macOS development
• support for macOS export
• Linux LÖVE dependencies
• tests
• GUI (optional)