wesnoth-1.16-tools question

[kurt751]

(Don't know if this is the right place to ask this, feel free to move)

I'm trying to convert my old scenarios and campaigns from 1.12 to 1.16 using wmllint. (Wesnoth 1.16 on Ubuntu.)

Is it normal wmllint tries to edit files in my core game installation (files like "/usr/share/games/wesnoth/1.16/data/core/terrain.cfg")?

Obviously it doesn't succeed (permission denied), but I assume something is not going according to plan here: The description says "a utility for sanity-checking WML syntax and porting your old WML to the current version of WML.", so what is it doing trying to edit core files?

[Lord-Knightmare]

I believe there is setting that auto checks "check core files". You have to disable that setting while running it for your add-on.

[Soliton]

wmllint runs on whatever files you tell it to. If you don't specify any path it will work on the current directory.

[kurt751]

wmllint runs on whatever files you tell it to.

I simply copied the suggested command line without checking, and for some strange reason it does indeed include the core files...
Oh well, that explains it. Thanks!

Note that wmllint does miss a lot of things (well, I have to admit some things are not strictly speaking WML). I think I'll have a busy weekend to fix my 6 scenarios and 3 campaigns...