Installing pak192.comic doesn't work from simutrans installer

[Yona-TYT]

I am using the latest simutrans night and I cannot install pak192 on Android, it seems that the link is not working and the download does not work.

[Flemmbrav]

I'd expect this to be an issue out of our hands. Or is there anything we can do from the pakset-side of things?

[Yona-TYT]

To tell the truth, I have no idea how the simutrans download manager works.... The most sensible thing would be a text file with the repository list somewhere...

It seems to me that in the case of pak192.Comic the link is misspelled or stopped working, I suppose the pakset files are being sent from GitHub?.

[Andarix]

https://github.com/simutrans/simutrans/blob/master/src/paksetinfo.h

folder in zip 'pak192.comic-nightly-datconverter'

and first file in folder '.W50_Container_SZ.pak' 96 byte

loading screen show RC1
zip is RC2

It's confusing what you actually get.

[Flemmbrav]

We should at least update to V0.6 then!
https://github.com/Flemmbrav/Pak192.Comic/releases/tag/V0.6

[_Hajo_]

To tell the truth, I have no idea how the simutrans download manager works.... The most sensible thing would be a text file with the repository list somewhere...

There is a script "tools/get_pak.sh" which has a list of all the download links. I'm not sure if it is the first source though, because it says the list was automatically generated.

There is also a header file "src/paksetinfo.h" but that one says it was generated using the get_pak.sh script. Yet it's the one file that defines the paks that a Simutrans version will offer in the UI for download.

[Yona-TYT]

We should at least update to V0.6 then!
https://github.com/Flemmbrav/Pak192.Comic/releases/tag/V0.6

Well that's even better!. 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

[prissi]

Android installer cannot download from https, hence a stable pak192.comic must be hosted on SF (where HTTP works). Alternatively, one could try to call Java from C to use the OS download functions. I have some not working code for that, calling Java from C++ is a pain.