Automatic Tremulous Map Downloader

[Somethief]

This is a very usefull application to keep your map folder up-to-date.
No more painfull surfing around the net or slow downloads from a server, the application keeps your maps up to date without your attention.

After that adspeak.. Really
You can get the application here

Notice: The application has to be in the same directory with tremulous.exe so it can find your map folder, otherwise it wont work.
If your maps are not in base\ folder, you may change this from settings.

Our IRC chan is #tremmapdownload on qnet

[epik]

I was first!

[Smokey]

why would anyone trust you when you cant even spell your correctly?..

[Karvajalka]

I tried it, it works.  . I actualy like it a lot.

[epik]

I can confirm it's virus-free.

[Smokey]

How does it know when there is a new map?

[Somethief]

why would anyone trust you when you cant even spell your correctly?..

1. I already fixed it
2. After trying it out u wont think the same (backup ur trem folder first if u think its not safe :x)

[Smokey]

i tried it out. works, but why a php file for a map list? when not .ini or .cfg? or even a .txt?

[Somethief]

How does it know when there is a new map?

Isn't it my problem ?

[Smokey]

Im hardly worried about viruses/keyloggers or any other sort, payback would be a bitch. Not bad.

[Somethief]

i tried it out. works, but why a php file for a map list? when not .ini or .cfg? or even a .txt?

PHP is server-side generated so it can take care of itself. .txt etc would need human touch

[whitebear]

so how does it actualy work... details please...

Does it download the map from game server? Your own server?
Is it "in-game" aplication? Where is the download server? How often does the files update on the server?

[Somethief]

so how does it actualy work... details please...

Does it download the map from game server? Your own server?
Is it "in-game" aplication? Where is the download server? How often does the files update on the server?

So it simply does this:
1. Downloads .php file from my server (server builds the file)
2. It checks does map folder include files that it got in that php file
3. If it finds new map, it downloads it from my server in .pk3, when designing the application i saw .zip useless cause the save of it is so minimal with map files.

[Mikiupdown2]

3. If it finds new map, it downloads it from my server in .pk3, when designing the application i saw .zip useless cause the save of it is so minimal with map files.

Uhm...PK3 files are zip files. Just renamed.

But yea, kool program. Will come in handy. Very handy indeed.

EDIT: Haha Moofed, beat ya. Ner ner ne ner ner!  :roll:

[Moofed]

3. If it finds new map, it downloads it from my server in .pk3, when designing the application i saw .zip useless cause the save of it is so minimal with map files.

Psst... pk3 files are zip files.  :wink:

edit: :eek:

[Rippy]

As a programmer, I'm interested in:
1. What language is it programmed in?
2. Can I have the source?

Not out of suspicion of any kind, and it's not like I'm gonna rip the code, I'd just like to see the code.

[[db@]Megabite]

I bet 10€ on Delphi! Erm, sorry... Object Pascal... Erm no... "The Delphi Language"! That's it!

Danny

[David]

can we have the source? then we can get a linux verson.

edit:
shouldnt be *too* hard to make a perl verson, i would but i have too many projcts on the go

[Chernevog]

Looks like a similar program to Windows get a source forge project. That one is coded in delphi and the source is available here. All you would have to do is create a repository of map files and then winget would check to see if there are new ones or not and automatically download them.

http://windows-get.sourceforge.net/

I wonder if we can get tucows or someone to host a tremulous map repository that we could connect to so that we all knew and could trust the source. (Not saying the current source isn't trust worthy but I am uber paranoid)

Cheers,
Chernevog

[Odin]

Wouldn't it be much better if it worked like apt?

[David]

Wouldn't it be much better if it worked like apt?

lets submit a tremulous-maps-beta package!
then someone has to keep it up to date, and all is sorted!.

[vcxzet]

you virused my system an haxored my harddisk

[kevlarman]

Wouldn't it be much better if it worked like apt?

lets submit a tremulous-maps-beta package!
then someone has to keep it up to date, and all is sorted!.

that would be so great, only problem is that some people use distros with a package managment system other than apt (and there is no good way to force them to). i would love to point sources.lst at tremulous.info and have all the latest maps

[David]

Wouldn't it be much better if it worked like apt?

lets submit a tremulous-maps-beta package!
then someone has to keep it up to date, and all is sorted!.

that would be so great, only problem is that some people use distros with a package managment system other than apt (and there is no good way to force them to). i would love to point sources.lst at tremulous.info and have all the latest maps

thay can make a rpm then.

--OR--
tremulous.info can add a file with a list of each map and a url and its md5, and a simple bash script can scank them all.
or a public ftp folder, and use wget's mirroring stuff.

also, how is your program automatic? windoze has no cron, and its verson of at sucks.

[kevlarman]

Wouldn't it be much better if it worked like apt?

lets submit a tremulous-maps-beta package!
then someone has to keep it up to date, and all is sorted!.

that would be so great, only problem is that some people use distros with a package managment system other than apt (and there is no good way to force them to). i would love to point sources.lst at tremulous.info and have all the latest maps

thay can make a rpm then.

--OR--
tremulous.info can add a file with a list of each map and a url and its md5, and a simple bash script can scank them all.
or a public ftp folder, and use wget's mirroring stuff.

also, how is your program automatic? windoze has no cron, and its verson of at sucks.

or rsync, but none of those are nearly as convenient as apt (well, maybe rpm and whatever their version of apt is called (yum?) is, but that is beside the point)

[Lava Croft]

Good job Somethief, I think you made a lot of lazy people really happy:)

[SLAVE|Mietz]

good job on that prog.

and i still wonder how many extremely PARANOIC ppl are out there....

[Somethief]

Good job Somethief, I think you made a lot of lazy people really happy:)

It not only for the lazy people, if these paranoids will take the application in use we may finally get on new maps. Atcs & tremulous combo is getting annoying..

[Glunnator]

does it work for mac? just asking before i download another IRRIpoTATING .exe file  :-?
Well, does it? well? well?

[Somethief]

does it work for mac? just asking before i download another IRRIpoTATING .exe file  :-?
Well, does it? well? well?

No, i know kinda nothing about coding on mac