Proposal: change the way the simulator handles making videos/gifs

[Pharap]

At the moment the simulator is calling a bunch of longwinded system commands.

Instead of having complicated system-dependent code in the simulator, what if the simulator deferred the video/gif making part to .bat files.

This has several advantages over the current approach:

• Can be done without the simulator running
• Can take advantage of the cd command to reduce redundancy
• Allows us to use .sh files to provde Mac/Linux support (if the proper permissions are in place)
• Bugs in the scripts can be patched without recompiling the simulator
• The video/gif generation can be packaged separately alongside the required dependencies,
  • This allows people to skip downloading it if it's not a feature that they want
  • This might open package managers up as an option for distributing that part on Linux
• Avoids having to refactor that monolith in CleanUp
• Can be called via the system function if need be
• Enables customisation of the scripts by tech-savvy users

[pokitto]

This did not work for me btw. The construction of the path is not independent from the location, resulting in a malformed path.

[Pharap]

What code did you try?