Bug#776540: game-data-packager: please add support for games working with gemrbd engine

[Alexandre Detiste]

2015-10-04 18:22 GMT+02:00 Simon McVittie <smcv at debian.org>:
> We could have a heuristic like stripping some "extension" automatically
> when determining look_for and install_as, but we'd have to use something
> that is unlikely to appear in a genuine filename.
>
> ...
>
> I'd vaguely lean towards "?", which is vaguely reminiscent of HTTP
> query-strings, is relatively obscure in YAML (unlike ":" which we use
> all the time)
>
>     doom.wad?1.1

That would be great. The '?' is already special-handled elsewhere
in choose_mirror() to means that URL with this character can't be
'solid' file names,
only a transaction that'll give a real file, with an other name.

For example, https://docs.google.com/uc?export=download&id=0ByCRmO4G6HOoRWNjaS04VTlMbWc
will give us "iortcw-1.42b-linux-x86.zip", but there will never be
a file named "uc?export=download&id=0ByCRmO4G6HOoRWNjaS04VTlMbWc"
in a local stash of patches/game demos that can be referenced with GDP_MIRROR.

As these '?' are only visible in the "download:" tag,
there's not conflict with the automatic stripping.

>> Another problem: the English version ships
>>
>>       data/AREA1700.BIF
>>
>> the German version
>>
>>       Data/AREA1700.BIF
>
> g-d-p searches case-insensitively anyway, because the 99% case is that
> the game was designed to run on Windows or DOS.

maybe make-template heuristic should be refined to be lowercase by default,
except with HTML + images documentation sets that goes in /usr/share/doc/<game>.

I vaguely remeber that when browsing some documentation from
a Quake or RTCW game; some image links were broken,
because the files hadn't the right case; I have


>
>> I install the same file into the data directory
>> (English version) or the Data directory (German version).
>
> Does gemrb really require you to do this? If you install either language
> into the other directory (I'd use all-lower-case and move the German
> version), does it work?
>
>> For the last issue symlinking would be an option but this is rather
>> inconvenient when you have to process a lot of files like that.
>
> Or if gemrb is case-sensitive, can you install everything into 'data',
> and use a single symlink Data -> data to accommodate the German version?
>
>     S
>