pr-downloader (cross-platform console downloader)

[abma]

see the wiki page for up to date info:

http://springrts.com/wiki/Pr-downloader

[knorke]

did not test but i guess this is more for being integrated with ie lobbies, not so much for players?
like you have a launcher then you could add a "check for updates" button which would then run this downloader?
if so it might be usefull if it could return stuff to the calling programm ie "downloaded game version 1.23", "download failed", "file already exists" etc

[tragic]

Are the engine core files stored anywhere in downloadable form? I'd be interested in adding the ability to install the spring engine of a specific version.

[hoijui]

yep, see here:
http://springrts.com/dl/buildbot/default/

[abma]

new release (0.1.2):

notable change: supports partial downloading with verification + fastest mirror selecting

currently working on an c-api to make it usable for other programs: https://github.com/abma/pr-downloader/b ... wnloader.h

[abma]

released 0.3:
- use atomic writes for the rapid downloader
- unknown parameters are downloaded, allows "pr-downloader zk:stable"
- don't use 100% cpu on http-download
- set exit code to 1 if something failed
- ...

[Forboding Angel]

That this please be added to the linux installs?

[varikonniemi]

That this please be added to the linux installs?

Pardon my ignorance, but how does this differ from rapid which is already in the spring repos?

[koshi]

pr-downloader is a console cross-platform download tool for spring. it can download games and maps supporting currently all main download systems, including rapid, plasma and upq.

[varikonniemi]

Does this mean that it has all these tools functionality built-in, or is it just a frontend to use all these three tools if available from one interface?

I am wondering should i install this and learn to use a new tool just as i have got some kind of grip over how to use rapid. If this is just a frontend i see no benefit, if this is a much more advanced 3-in-1 standalone c++ program, then i can see the benefit.

[abma]

Does this mean that it has all these tools functionality built-in, or is it just a frontend to use all these three tools if available from one interface?

all functionality is built in. the plan is, to make a lib from it and it can be hopefully used everywhere then... (lobbies/autohosts/...?!)

[Forboding Angel]

linux weblobby...

[AF]

UPQ?

[abma]

@Forb:

thats up to the packagers, if libcurldev is available, pr-downloader is compiled...

@AF:

if you mean, that pr-downloader supports upq... yes.

[CarRepairer]

Would I need to bug hoijui to make a jna java wrapper for this too, like he did with unitsync?

[hoijui]

last time i looked at it, there was no propper/usable C interface yet (which is what i would need for a wrapper).
is this now done, abma?

[abma]

is this now done, abma?

no, but i think i've now a plan: https://github.com/abma/pr-downloader/issues/6

i never made a interface before, this is why prefer(ed) doing other things :-/

also there are/were still some other issues / feature requests in pr-downloader. meh... as you all know, a day should have 48 hours

[abma]

update to 0.6:
-parallel http downloads (because of this, progressbar is gone, will be fixed later)
-7zip support added
-engine download (currently windows / linux only, for mac support some zip lib has to be added)

for example

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pr-downloader --download-engine 89.0

should download the engine to ~/.spring/engine/89.0 (on linux) or My Documents\My Games\Spring\Engine\89.0 on windows.

its badly tested again... please report bugs! fixes are welcome :)