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xan1242 / NFS-XtendedInput

NFS (Black Box, MW & newer) - XInput Plugin
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[All] Release build packages are broken for Unix file systems #37

Closed xan1242 closed 1 year ago

xan1242 commented 1 year ago

Issue 1: Paths generated by Compress-Archive PowerShell command use backslashes instead of packing them correctly

This was recently revealed to me in this issue: https://github.com/ThirteenAG/WidescreenFixesPack/issues/1144

So far I've been using the Compress-Archive command from PowerShell to pack up the zips in batch. This method causes the file paths to use backslashes, causing incompatibility with Unix file archivers (unless the actual program used for extraction is aware of this).

One such utility is KDE's Ark. Instead of displaying folders, it instead displays the full path as: "scripts\NFS_XtendedInput.asi".

Solution: I'll probably just use a command-line version of 7z or gzip. No big deal here.

Issue 2: Case-sensitivity and the "Global" folder

In the case the game is ran on a case-sensitive filesystem, the game will prefer to look for uppercase paths (because of the string hashing).

Moreover, the games were packed with uppercase paths since UG2 and their original casing was lost somewhere during the packing procedure during development.

Solution 1: This folder should probably be just renamed to uppercase to avoid any trouble.

Solution 2: In case 1 fails, the TPK should be relocated somewhere in the "scripts" folder.

xan1242 commented 1 year ago

Both issues fixed - 7zip was used to pack the release archives this time around.

Global folder is now "GLOBAL". File system case sensitivity is something that should be looked after by the user.