Does anybody still use DeuTex?

[LexiMax]

Odamex uses DeuTex in order to build its WAD file, but we are in the process of migrating to loading Odamex resources into ZIP files, and it occurred to me - do any other projects make active use of DeuTex?

 

The most recent release of DeuTex is three years old and requires building from source on *NIX platforms, and I've been pondering various methods of making use of DeuTex easier to "pick up and use" or integrate into a build system on Linux and macOS  - but if nobody uses it anymore, perhaps the juice is not worth the squeeze.

Edited September 14, 2023 by LexiMax

[Mordeth]

I'm still using DeuTex v3.6 to build my texture / pnames lumps from textfiles.

[RjY]

Freedoom is probably the main remaining user these days. You probably knew that already, though. Especially given the v5+ releases were made by Freedoom developers. :)

PrBoom and its descendents used to use it for building its data wad but stopped a long time ago. It was easier to write a whole new program than work around an infelicity in how DeuTex interacted with Auto{conf,make} out-of-tree builds (which broke "make distcheck").

I still use it for some personal projects when I need to handle some lump types my own hand-rolled tools don't support yet. In particular I still don't have anything better to compile/decompile TEXTURE1/PNAMES lumps. Every time I need to, I think "I wish I had a better thing to handle this" but I've never been angry enough to Just Fucking Do It.

However, once you have your directory set up so you can just type "make" and everything just works, it's really nice ;).

 

[Xaser]

DoomTools has kinda become the de facto DeuTex replacement. I'd rather point folks at that nowadays since it has more power under the hood (full scripting, decohack, etc) and great tech support (MTrop is a beast).

 

I remember the Java requirement being a sticking point for someone a while back, but there's now a standalone distribution that bundles a JVM, which ought to play a bit nicer with automation workflows.

[RonLivingston]

I never used Deutex, and I never had knowledge about that, I only had xwe to make dehacked files, plus slade is also the program that I can make dehacked files with. but does anyone made dehacked files with Deutex?