Here is Google Cache of this thread, which of course disappeared.
And here is what probably called mod on me... after what? Three weeks of being untouched?
I was creative back then. :>THIS FORUM FREAKING SUCKS! EAT HORSE MANURE NOT MY POSTS YOU FILTHY PIECE OF NON RECYCLABLE GARBAGE!
Dear WG, delete this trash and switch to working one.
People already invented forum systems where writing posts require only writing them, not some black magic to make it work.
Google Cache misses my last post in that thread, answer to some moron cried that RCP made his Internet slow. My respond was short "sucks to be you".
Well, try to create bigger post on WoT Forum full of formatting and discover that even edit-save without doing any changes screws it up completely. And before I wrote that angry message it just swallowed two pages of text for no exact reason.
ReplyDeleteAs for Google Drive, I am uploading on it right now, last time I tried it there were limits on file size, but now it swallows 300 MB archives without any issues. Re-upload should be done today.
Yeah the forums have been fucked for a couple of weeks now, editing posts removes line breaks, and when you finally get them fixed and submit the post again, it looks like they're still missing until you ctrl+r. Real pain in the ass. Typed out four paragraphs yesterday and accidentally backspaced to the previous page and lost everything. Of course the auto-save feature which rarely works didn't recover anything.
ReplyDeleteA couple of weeks into September I'll have a bit of free time, if you want I could make you an app to make it cleaner and easier for users to download and install what they need using a GUI. If you're interested let me know, we can discuss it further.
And thanks for the google drive links, downloads in seconds now. You can use goo.gl url shortener to keep track of statistics too, which is neat.
Also I forgot to mention, using Google Drive you can get direct links to folders and files by right-clicking on them, going to details, then copying the URL from the side-pane.
DeleteJust as an example, here's an image showing what I'm talking about. http://i.imgur.com/g3eBUYs.png
Same deal to get direct-links to files, just get the url from the files details.
Thanks for offer and hints.
DeleteI lived in a cave recently so I am few years ago in usage of Google drive. If you have spare time, then you are more than welcome to make RCP installer, I just googled and it appears that WinRAR SFX module I use allows for command line unpacking.
Currently I prefer to focus on making RCS packages to reach full compatibility, utilities can come later, in plans I have two things
-GUI with some sort of replay browser that will pick correct RCS on its own, if googl could fetch files as you say it could contain installer as well.
-Paths.xml (re)generator, that file is pretty much power horse of RCP (its in game root and in RCV\X.Y\core), take a look on it if you still haven't, it will explain how RCP works better than words).
As for direct link itself, I have no idea how to get it. But explanation seems to be: Google hates EXE files and won't give direct link to them. It wants to scan all executables for viruses, and for such big files it fails.
So instead of direct link to file you can get direct link to pre-download warning. Bleargh.
So for automatic installer we would need pure zip archive instead of SFX so direct link would be generated, and pure zip is probably easiest thing to extract in the world.
Whatever format works for you, SFX or ZIPs. I recently started using a free .NET library (ioniczip) which will work with either format, and more. There's a few ways around that direct link problem, Google drive has an API which supports some HTML requests and I believe also includes an option to ignore the virus check failed warning.
DeleteI'll look at a few of your packages later this week to get familiarized with it and get back to you.
Neat. Even neater as you use .NET, which is my current favorite environment.
DeleteMind that packages I uploaded currently are RAR, not ZIP. From what I experienced handling RAR archives is rather problematic. (But as long as it is SFX, it can be extracted in command line to specific directory).
Currently I fight to find enough time to sit with RCV 7.5, it is more complicated to make it run than I thought it would (I had it running once on pure 8.0, but RCP is far from providing pure 8.0).
RAR's themselves might be an issue. I've been doing a bit of googling on that and it seems a third-party library is hard to come across because of licensing conflicts stemming from WinRAR. SFXs are of course not an issue as they can just be executed.
DeleteHowever I did find a problem with Google. Seems they recently changed their policy on the antivirus scan warning. They no longer provide a way to avoid the message and download large files directly. Ah well.
Pesky Gugl. But given average level of intelligence in Internet I understand their position on this.
DeleteIn installer confirmation for download could be as well simulated in code. Its either a cookie or a session variable (so a cookie anyway) with short life-span. (I have not checked).
As for now I am sitting and looking at RCV 7.5, which ended up weighting about 3GB. So much for automated tools. Time to dig in and remove some textures that got one pixel changed.