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TorchAPI / Torch

An extensible modding framework and improved client/DS for Space Engineers. Still a work in progress!
Apache License 2.0
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Custom install... #291

Closed DigitalNikki closed 5 years ago

DigitalNikki commented 5 years ago

Please make it so we can have custom installs. It should not be require to re-download SteamCMD/SE Dedicated Server, and use the existing SteamCMD/Dedicated Server.

Currently the only option is to re-download SteamCMD/SE Dedicated Server

Jimmacle commented 5 years ago

Torch manages DS updates itself so it needs the files to be in a specific structure and state. You can try installing Torch at the appropriate folder level but SteamCMD will likely try to redownload the server anyway. It's only like 2GB.

DigitalNikki commented 5 years ago

It's still a feature request. Control of updates, and install locations should not be taken away from the system administrator.

I can't allow torch on any of my systems until it has these features.

Jimmacle commented 5 years ago

Allowing the vanilla content location to change adds too many variables to the already tricky stuff we're doing to the assembly loader so we don't have plans to change it. You can choose where to install Torch itself, consider the whole thing one package (because it is).

foogs commented 5 years ago

Try hardlinks

DigitalNikki commented 5 years ago

Hardlinks do not solve anything, and the location of content doesn't need to be changed.

I can't say I'm surprised people are bad enough at coding to be unable to figure out paths....

DigitalNikki commented 5 years ago

Allowing the vanilla content location to change adds too many variables to the already tricky stuff we're doing to the assembly loader so we don't have plans to change it. You can choose where to install Torch itself, consider the whole thing one package (because it is).

Thanks for showing you're a poor developer, and this program is not safe to be used as released from here.

Jimmacle commented 5 years ago

If that's your attitude I don't want you in my community anyway.

rexxar-tc commented 5 years ago

Look, you cannot insult developers and expect to get your way. If you think it's so simple, then you can always submit a pull request.

As others have said, a hard link is the best workaround.

hades200082 commented 5 years ago

Hi guys,

I'm pretty new to SE servers but I'm a .net developer in my day job and have been developing in .net and other languages for over 20 years... so ignoring the insults thrown around above, here goes....

One thing I've found to be true of most systems, languages & frameworks... hard-coding file system paths is, almost always, a bad idea.

That's not to say that you can't use specific folder structures for your application to know where things are... but allowing more configuration around where those folder structures site on the file-system can help server admins have more control over their systems and can help to prevent having duplicated files scattered all over the place unnecessarily.

It should be a fairly simple matter to allow one instance of steamcmd/se-ds to run multiple dedicated servers by simply allowing the server admin to set two paths in the torch config (you can ask them to select these on first start and save them somewhere if you want, or simply have them as appsettings in Torch.Server.exe.config

Once they've been set you can store them in variables and use them wherever you need to access anything under either of those paths.

For both paths, a simple check for the relevant executable's existence in that location would tell you whether you need to download/install it or not.