A platform can hand each libretro core a system directory of its own
(core_system_dirs). platform_layouts then gives one view per directory,
so the gap report, the builder, the manifest, slots and cross_reference
place a core's files below each folder it is handed, and a core handed
none gets no file. Resolution strips the folder again and searches the
collection by the core's own path.
CommentsSayWhy read three scripts while 22 comments in 13 other files
named the next statement. They are removed or replaced by the reason,
and the test reads every tracked script and install.py.
164 entries wore the in repo badge with no copy named: they are held as
a ZIP member or in a data directory, which the database does not index.
held_copy() finds that copy and the card names it. storage: large_file
no longer counts as held by itself: kenji-nx's user-picked firmware
package read as held although nothing collects it.
load_target_config raised out of cross_reference.py as a traceback. The hint now names the full verify.py command, since cross_reference and slots have no --list-targets.
export_native and cross_reference read data/ without the shared hold, so
a refresh could swap a tree mid-walk. hold_data_dirs skipped a cache not
yet on disk, so a refresh could install it between verify and the packs
of one pipeline run. Both now hold every registered tree.
FileConsumers resolved platform declarations with their destination as
a hint, which the builder, the manifest and verify never pass. RetroBat's
63 mame/hash lists and the curated gc-ntsc-12.bin credited another copy
than the one the manifests install.
cross_reference --platform read bundled from the profile alone and never
read unread_on. It now calls validation.installed_with_emulator and
unread_on with the platform key, as verify does, and a file installed
with its emulator is reported as bundled whether held or not.
declaration_settles tested the exact-case name before the slot, so on a
filesystem that folds case a declaration spelled otherwise never settled
the core's file: RetroBat's 32X_G_BIOS.BIN left BlastEm's 32X_G_BIOS.bin
undeclared, and verify counted ten such entries as core files. A slot a
case-insensitive platform fills now settles the entry whatever the
spelling (case_folded_slots), the slot arbitration judging its bytes as
for the exact name. Lakka and RetroPie, which keep both names, are
unchanged. Measured: 10 entries settle on RetroBat, 21 on RetroArch.
generate_site.py builds its gap report through cross_reference() without
the folded slots; it needs folded_declared_slots() passed in the same way
as the command line now does.
cross_reference.py --emulator abuse printed "Gaps: 3 missing" above three
[BUNDLED] files, then "0 missing (need to be sourced)" in the total. The
heading and the total now read one count: bundled files appear as
"N bundled", never among the missing.
entry_source took a name or path hit before reading the hashes the entry
declares, so the gap report and the site counted as held a file whose
only homonym has other bytes: zquestclassic's ending.mid and gameover.mid
matched Hydra Castle Labyrinth's. A name or path hit now counts only
when its record carries one of the declared hashes, and the declared
content anywhere in bios/ comes before a data/ copy. Measured over every
profile entry: 254 change, 248 bundled ones (report and site only),
three unsourceable SC-55 revisions now read missing, three data hits
read bios by hash.
FileConsumers resolved profile entries without the data directory
registry the builder uses. Dolphin's hashless codehandler.bin then took
Dolphin-MMJR's copy by name, and the site listed Dolphin and Triforce as
its readers while every pack serves data/dolphin-sys. blueMSX's RS232.ROM
and MSX2P.rom were credited to bios/ copies the same way. The registry
is now read by default, as the builder reads it.
With it, bundled_only.py --strict (pipeline step 4d) names
bios/Other/dolphin-mmjr/codehandler.bin: only dolphin-mmjr's bundled
entry, which already carries its sha1 and size, reaches that copy.
A directory entry was joined to the collection by its own name, so the
11,976 files under alephone's Plugins/ and the cdogs, thextech and
easyrpg trees named no emulator on their card. FileConsumers now expands
the directory and records which entry reads each file. The emulator links
on a file card land on that entry, and a directory card names its copies
and the folder that holds them.
--emulator accepts a buildbot core name from a profile's cores:, and a
mistyped target gets the closest names instead of every target. diff_truth
shows destinations and reports unpaired entries as evidence, not removals.
The verify summary counts discrepancies, a shared destination names both
systems, a truth hash conflict names both cores, and pipeline steps carry
their place in the real run instead of N/8. Every GitHub API caller takes
the token from github_token(), which falls back to gh auth token.
A card named only the platforms whose own list declares the file. A RetroBat user looking up scph5501.bin found every platform but RetroBat, whose pack installs it for six cores. The cards now read the install manifests and add each pack that places the file, with the destination it gives it.
cross_reference printed 20 runtime components bundled with their emulator as [MISSING] and counted them among the files to source. The collection leaves them out by design, as verify and the gaps page already say. They are now listed as [BUNDLED] and counted on their own line.
With no platform named, cross_reference passed no standalone cores, so every dual profile was laid out as libretro only. The CLI and the site's gaps page left out 133 files that Batocera and RetroBat run standalone and that no platform declares (eka2l1 90, dolphin 21, cemu 11). Both now pass the union of every platform's standalone cores.
Batocera, RetroBat, Recalbox and ROCKNIX offer some emulators both as a
libretro core and standalone. Filed as standalone only, the libretro
layout was dropped: libretro Dolphin had no dolphin-emu/Sys/GC files.
Platforms now name dual-mode emulators and each gets both layouts.
A mistyped --emulator exited 0 with no profile found, and a correct one
with no gaps was left out of its own report, totalled across all
emulators. The name is now checked, the emulator always printed, and
--list-emulators added for the suggestion to point at.
argparse completed a prefix into the only flag starting with it:
slots.py --emulator read profiles from a directory named after the
emulator and reported nothing, and pipeline.py --all built every pack
variant. Every parser now refuses an abbreviation.
The gap report took a file's libretro path even where the platform
runs the standalone build, so it named Cemu/keys.txt for Batocera
while verify named keys.txt, and settled the declaration on a slot
the platform never fills. Both now read standalone_path there.
Abdessamad Derraz