DavidW

OK, if this is general to BGT (and not specific to Salk's ini choice) I'll try to address it. (I didn't run BGT install checks this time around.)

Thanks! - but as Roberciiik pointed out above, I forgot to traify dw#carsa.d and carsa_add.d. I'll do so in 34.1 (probably released later today); I assume it makes sense to wait till you've had a chance to do those lines too before including the updated translation?

I haven’t a clue.

Yes... that's probably right. I'm not sure that can be helped; I'll think about it.

It's basically the same issue as with normal modding: overwrites need to come before patches. Most self-described 'UI mods' replace the whole UI. Mods with UI tweaks normally do it with REPLACE_TEXTUALLY.

When you ran batch mode, you should have been asked about 'A' too - 'reinstall/uninstall/no change/quit'. What did you answer?

Doing this will break SCS's difficulty system, for instance.

Yes, I can reproduce that - problem with v34 that crept in and somehow missed my SoD test install. Wait till tomorrow (it's not easily hotfixable).

OK, so just to check I'm not being stupid, if I create a text file called stratagems.sh, whose contents are 'weinstall %MOD_FOLDER% --uninstall --force-install-list blah'; put that text file in weidu_external/batch; typed 'sh weidu_external/batch/stratagems' (/ rather than \, yes?) at the command line the result would be the same as entering 'weinstall %MOD_FOLDER% --uninstall --force-install-list blah' at the command line? & this is Linux, not OSX, yes?

I think you're using WEIDU v246.

I'm afraid I triaged that one as too much of an edge case. The parse errors are probably harmless.

Damn; you're right. I meant to do that before release and forgot (and it doesn't show up as a problem when testing). I need to do a 34.1 release over the weekend anyway, to fix a couple of 2.6 issues I missed first time round. I'll try to traify those two files then too.

OK, I'll give that a go. What's the command-line instruction to run an sh file?

Batch mode doesn't affect the interaction with the ini: it fine-tunes options exactly the same way as if you install the usual way.

The reason I'm not supporting other OSs is primarily that I'm completely ignorant of what their equivalent of .bat file are and how to format them (and secondarily that I don't have a non-Windows testing environment). If someone wants to give me idiot-proofed instructions on how to feed a text file with setup-stratagems --uninstall --force-install-list blah to WEIDU in OSX or Linux, I don't mind trying to implement it.

I don't know about 'should', but it has lots of advantages. (The point is if you know enough about WEIDU to mess with the innards of a tp2, you can find your own fast-install solution.)

Thank you - that's a very clean repro case. I'll see if I can reproduce it myself.

But if the trap went off, you can record that fact via the trap script. (I think you're right about Disarmed() in the area script, but you might want to play around with where it does work.)

You have answered your own question. (Power users have never needed this kind of tool - I test SCS using force-install and/or batch files, and have for ages.)

I can reproduce this - a very late bug that somehow slipped in and only shows up on BGEE/EET. Fix fairly imminent.

It's a non-backward-compatible new library (about which I'm not likely to answer questions right now, since it's still in development, but you're welcome to look around it!) I'm likely to use it for new content, but not to convert old content (i.e. SCS) into it. The IWDSpells converter is written in 2e; the rest of SCS is in 1e, and will probably stay that way.

I come back to my comment about content in general. It's not as if there's a shared list of all novels or all TV shows.

The EE implementation of this in 33.7 should be harmless on v34, so I've left it for now. Probably it's unnecessary, but I was time-constrained in getting to a release. My guess is that probably it's fine with 2.5. But I don't officially support it, so you're on your own if you run into problems.

I have maintained SCS for 15 years, through intercontinental moves and two children; it's fairly unlikely I'll stop now, though I've taken 2-year-plus breaks before and probably will again!

You're not boring me, and I'd like to invite other people in this thread to dial down the snark a bit. I like getting this sort of feedback, even when I don't agree with it.