PyQModManager

Simple tool to manage a set of archives. Written to manage mods available for the game Lilith’s Throne.

• Track the state of the different files bundled with each archives

• Unpack into a designated directory

Installation and Requirements

Windows

If you are running windows, a self contained binary is provided at each release. Please check the releases page to download the archive. Running the application is a simple as double clicking the .exe file present in the archive.

Linux

You’ll need to install python3 with whatever package manager your distribution provides you. This application has been developped using python 3.7, any prior version might work, but untested. If you feel adventurous, you can checkout pyenv.

This software being a python script, it doesn’t need to be installed. However requirements are needed for that purpose.

You’ll need whatever is presesent in the requirements.txt. As Linux distributions such as debian are commonly out of date, I’d recommend installing the requirement locally, under your user directory, with the following command.

~$ pip install --user -r requirements.txt

You could also opt to install in a virtual environment through pipenv. pipenv install will use the Pipfile already present in the repository.

~$ pip install pipenv
~$ pipenv install

Running the app

If you chose pipenv, you can then start the application using the following, provided you are in the same folder as the run.py file.

~$ pipenv run ./run.py

If you opted for the simple pip install, simply execute run.py.

~$ python run.py

Known issues

The software is currently being rewritten, as such no known limitation exists. This might change once we get out of alpha.

Hacking

If you want to hack around, you only require the dependencies listed in the requirements.txt file. The Pipfile has a list of dev-packages, which is unneeded to actually run and develop the software. They’re helper tools, like pylint or flake8

Documentation generator

The documentation is currently available at https://qmodmanager.rtfd.io/

The generation of the documentation on readthedocs.org necessitate some extra steps in order to successfuly generate the api documentation. We have to generate ui files at build time, which are not included in the repository nor available to rtd. Therefore a script apidoc has been provided as helper.

The apidoc script will forcefully generate the required files for the api. In addition of that, it will also parse the various UI files present in the resources folder and generate stubs in the _ext folder. Those stubs needs to be regenerated whenever a UI file is added to the resources folder.