[Love2D] polyamory - multiversion LÖVE distribution - equivalent for gameshell

[arthur]

When I first started using love, I was quite frustrated by the incompatible versions for running games. Then I found :

megagrump/polyamory

Does any one know if there is a chance of getting this sort of project to work on the gameshell ? Or an equivalent technique ?

[guu]

interesting project ,

but seems the building progress is a little bit ups and downs

[Lix]

If someone could test this it would be very interesting.

[Niu]

Hey,
I also found this and brought it up here a while ago.

Playing older love2d games on the console

For Linux Desktop I found a solution which works quiet well: https://love2d.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=85935 Something like this launcher is what you should get by default when you download löve2d … Sure, as a developer there is nothing to gain but for EVERYONE ELSE … sorry. If they made it possible to distribute *.love files, they should care. I just tried it on the gameshell but it does not load. It’s an AppImage but I am certain this is not the issue. Maybe someone can make a GameS…

We would need a 32-bit version
Regarding this topic the dev states: probably never

I don’t know what the main difficulty is in porting it to 32bit. maybe something with Löve2D itself?

[Niu]

hm I did a quick look into the code in my lunchbreak (I am not a programmer)
I think the main part is

megagrump/polyamory/blob/master/src/loader.lua

and it seems to me it estimates the love version on basis of several factors (date, do certain filenames exist etc)
maybe it’s possible to pack this into a python script instead of wanting to build the whole thing for gameshell.

[arthur]

@niu thanks for taking a look at this. Why do you mention 32-bit ? I think we might have to try to add all the love armel builds to polyamory and see how that works.