Bug#800715: support for Planescape: Torment

[Simon McVittie]

On 16/10/15 20:55, Markus Koschany wrote:
> Am 16.10.2015 um 21:41 schrieb Alexandre Detiste:
>> I suggest the path to be /usr/share/gemrb/baldurs-gate-1,
>> that would a symlink to /usr/share/gemrb/baldurs-gate-1-{en|de|fr|..}
> 
> I think we should keep the current naming
> scheme /usr/share/gemrb/baldurs-gate-1-{en|de|fr|..}. This ensures that
> the user can install multiple versions in parallel.

>From my point of view, the ideal thing would be if gemrb, or a wrapper
script around it, knew how to look at the usual language environment
variables, and try directories like /usr/share/gemrb/baldurs-gate-1/en
(or -en or whatever) in preference order - perhaps it could be
hard-coded to try English after the preferred languages even if it
wasn't listed, and perhaps it should also try
/usr/share/gemrb/baldurs-gate-1 if none of the subdirectories look like
suitable game data.

I suggested subdirectories rather than a suffix in the hope that gemrb
could be modified to interpret
"GamePath=/usr/share/gemrb/baldurs-gate-1" as "try /u/s/g/bg1/fr,
.../de, [.../en,] /u/s/g/bg1" (assuming for example
LANGUAGE="fr_FR:de_DE"), without explicitly configuring the language.
Perhaps it could also be taught to look in .../cd1, etc., without having
to explicitly specify CD1, etc.?

My experience from src:quake is that this sort of thing is easier if the
search path can be set via command-line options rather than
configuration files - worst-case, a shell script like the ones in
src:quake can provide whatever automation is needed. I don't think gemrb
currently supports this, though.

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