[Request]: flightgear

[radiorz]

Prerequisites

• [X] I have searched all issues/PRs to ensure it has not already been reported or fixed.

Criteria

• [X] Reasonably well-known and widely used
• [X] A game or a game-related tool
• [X] English interface (or at least English documentation)
• [X] Latest stable or development version
• [X] Full version (i.e. not a trial version)
• [ ] Fairly standard install (e.g. uses a version-specific download URL, no elaborate pre/post install scripts)

Name

flightgear

Description

FLIGHTGEAR FLIGHT SIMULATOR sophisticated, professional, open-source

Homepage

https://www.flightgear.org/

Download Link(s)

https://sourceforge.net/projects/flightgear/files/release-2020.3/FlightGear-2020.3.18.exe/download

Some Indication of Popularity/Repute

https://github.com/FlightGear/flightgear star 406

[superusercode]

FlightGear is a 1.8GB download, so it's hard to really do autoupdate on it and get the hash for it in a fast way. Especially if your CI can't handle it, like what happened to winget where their pipeline that checks new packages through an AV would constantly get stuck on it originally. They do manual updates (https://github.com/microsoft/winget-pkgs/tree/master/manifests/f/FlightGear/FlightGear/2020.3.11) and we would have to do manual updates as well. Otherwise this app installs through inno setup and would be relatively easy to add after the hash issues, but I don't know enough about scoop to know all the pitfalls of a package this large.

[superusercode]

@Calinou would the hash checker/autoupdate pipeline be able to handle a 1.8gb download?

[Calinou]

@Calinou would the hash checker/autoupdate pipeline be able to handle a 1.8gb download?

I don't know – it works OK on 1 GB releases at least.

[superusercode]

innosetup/innounp doesn't seem to be working out for flightgear

[superusercode]

{
    "version": "2020.3.18",
    "description": "FlightGear is an open-source flight simulator.",
    "homepage": "https://www.flightgear.org/",
    "license": {
        "identifier": "GPL-2.0-or-later",
        "url": "http://wiki.flightgear.org/GNU_General_Public_License"
    },
    "url": "https://download.flightgear.org/builds/2020.3/FlightGear-2020.3.18.exe",
    "hash": "b22f8acf40b56978aa7832eb7fc0324d515f2404fc256f2b098b049b905e7b38",
    "innosetup": true,
    "shortcuts": [
        [
            "fgfs.exe",
            "FlightGear"
        ]
    ],
    "checkver": {
        "url": "https://www.flightgear.org/",
        "regex": "Current stable release: (?<stable>[0-9\\.]+)"
    },
    "autoupdate": {
        "url": "https://download.flightgear.org/builds/$majorVersion.$minorVersion/FlightGear-$version.exe"
    }
}

this is what i have so far but unzipping also seems to not work, so i'll keep playing around