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I am also interested in the answer to this. Has anyone figured this out?

Today I released a new version of PyDwarf! This is a fairly small update, but I think a lot of people who've been interested in PyDwarf's mod merging capability will be happy to know that it now works correctly with the latest PyDwarf version, and that there is a new tutorial just explaining how to use this feature.

Visit PyDwarf's releases page to download the most recent version and please feel welcome to check out the pineapple.diff tutorial that explains how to get started merging normally manually-installed mods using PyDwarf.

I believe I have done everything but when I go to run the python manager.py it just flickers and turns off. Did I miss anything?

How are you running it? If you're running it normally in a command line it shouldn't do that, and it should tell you what the program did and what went wrong, if anything.

Here is one short tutorial on how to do this: http://pythoncentral.io/execute-python-script-file-shell/ See the section named "Run a Python script under Windows with the Command Prompt".

I've tried many times, but I just can't seem to get the pineapple.diff script to work. For starters, I'm not even sure whether I'm passing the right args. It would be nice if there was a usage case example somewhere for what is probably the most interesting script in the bunch... (diff-based mod merging)

Hi, I'm busy as heck this week but I will see if I can't put a proper tutorial together when I get the chance.

pineapple.diff isn't more spectacularly presented because it's so limited. Diff-based merging of mods is also a lot more failure-prone than PyDwarf's normal mod tools. So some things to keep in mind:

- pineapple.diff absolutely must be the first mod in your list. It cannot be run after any other mod, or be run multiple times and still function correctly. (You can pass more than one mod path to merge, though.)

- The mods you input must have been made for the same version of Dwarf Fortress that you're playing, otherwise the raws differences from one version to another will screw up the merging.

- Looking at the script I can't immediately remember whether the paths to mods should be paths to raws directories or paths to directories like "df_osx_40_23/" with the mod's raw directory inside. If you've got the other things right and it's still not working, try messing around with the mod paths.

- Also if all of that isn't enough to figure it out, give me more information about how it's failing and I'll do what I can to help. e.g. is PyDwarf giving you an error? Is it making the wrong changes to your DF install? Is it making no changes at all?

Just squeezing in here to point out that mods written with PyDwarf won't have compatibility issues like this, and that it has a script named pineapple.diff that will try very hard for you to combine mods that aren't made specifically for PyDwarf and are just modified raws files, provided they were made for the very same version of Dwarf Fortress that you're trying to mod with PyDwarf.

Here's a surprise: PyDwarf has just received a new minor release.

I'm getting back into playing DF after a long hiatus. I went to install my customary mods, and was very pleased to find that PyDwarf was still working as intended! ...With the notable exception of an issue arising from how PyDwarf determined script compatibility with Dwarf Fortress versions. This release isn't a very elegant fix, but it will suffice, and it makes PyDwarf less clunky to use for 0.40+ DF versions.

Oh, shame on me for not having caught that. Copying the lib/yaml/ dir into the pydwarf/ dir will work perfectly well, but you can also run pip install pyyaml or add PyDwarf's lib/yaml/ directory to your PYTHONPATH.

edit: Actually, I pushed a cleaner fix to the PyDwarf repository's develop branch as to avoid this problem in the future. Thank you for pointing it out!