This needs to work on the Raspberry Pi

[ericoporto]

Opening this issue since I have a Pi-Top CEED to test, which uses Raspberry Pi 3 and as is, it's a little hard.

Right now you have to install dependencies manually and then use pip3 install --no-dependencies fgmk.

I am hitting two problems:

• PyQt5 is available through Raspbian, but not through pip3.
  • My solution to this is to create a debian that depends on python3-pyqt5, python3-pil, python3-pil.imagetk and python3-numpy.
  • Need to check if all these packages are available
  • Need to learn how to create deb packages, I am thinking on using stdeb and start from there - I have some work on this here.
  • The only way I know of doing this is building in the Raspberry Pi itself, don't know if there is another, smarter way.
• Javascript is slow on Pi / I am a bad javascript coder
  • My temporally solution to this is modifying the game_server.py so that, whenever a file is loaded, if the file has a valid gamefolder (the project directory contains a descriptors folder with an init.json file), it will serve the current project directory, and when saving, it will kill and refresh the server.
  • Pressing f5 would only load the browser in this manner.
  • And the solution would be using something else to load the game, like a phone or a tablet, and use the Raspberry Pi just as a development environment.

[ericoporto]

Ok, needs more testing, but it looks like it works, using the Pi-Top CEED ip and port through Tablet/Phone to connect, so you can use the Tablet/Phone as testing point and the Pi-Top just for development. Still needs work on everything else, but if this new server approach doesn't crash, it will be in the next release.