proton-cachyos and others Proton sources

[Delor3an91]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

No possibility to add a GitHub Proton source.

Describe the solution you'd like

1. Add the proton-cachyos GitHub as another source to download and install their Proton versions.
2. Add the possibility to manually add a GitHub Proton repository.

Thank You for your amazing work!

Wish You well

[DavidoTek]

Sorry for the late reply.

As you pointed out, the version of Proton does not provide any binary releases. There are two possible approaches:

1. Implement a compatibility tool module (ctmod) that downloads the sources and builds them on the users machine
2. Request that proton-cachyos (and other tools too for that matter) provide pre-build binaries

I think it makes the most sense to build each tool only once and go with approach (2) in the case of proton-cachyos. Furthermore, the compilation takes a while and that would not be ideal for the user experience.

I understand that there are compatibility tools that are not used by many and that it can be interesting to build individual forks/branches/tags. I don't have spare time to build such a ctmod at the moment but I'm open to accepting a PR if someone builds it. It could work by supplying a local folder or a URL+commit in a custom popup that opens once the Install button in the install dialog is pressed.