The RetroArch list is folded for Windows and macOS. Its manifest
now carries the names a case-keeping directory also needs, and the
installer adds them after probing the BIOS directory.
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 installer looked for retroarch.exe in C:\RetroArch-Win64 and
Program Files\RetroArch only, so a RetroArch under Program Files\
RetroArch-Win64, in a Steam library on another drive, or in an
installed ES-DE's Emulators folder went undetected. All three are
searched; Steam libraries come from Steam's own library list.
install.py held a local it never read and, since the registry path
rules, a loop variable shadowing the platform module, so the py38
ruff gate the installer is held to failed. Both are fixed, and the
suite reads the two rules from the syntax tree since CI has no ruff.
The registry declares where each platform keeps its BIOS and every
manifest publishes it, but the installer detects before it fetches
any manifest and never had RetroPie, BizHawk, RetroBat's paths, or
EmuDeck's default folder. It now carries the registry's path rules,
held equal to the registry by a test.
The registry names one path per standalone copy for every platform,
but each manifest places the file its own way, so the installer
looked where the pack had put nothing and copied nothing: EmuDeck's
aes_keys.txt for Azahar, Batocera's switch/prod.keys. Each manifest
copy now names its source, which the installer validates and reads.
The pack builder accepts the aliases declared in the target overrides,
so --target switch works there, but the installer's target manifests
carried only canonical names. The documented word was the one that
failed, and the installer then carried on with every file: 1911 files
and 4.1 GB where the user had asked for the 863 that target needs.
Aliases are emitted beside their canonical target, and an unknown
target now stops the run and lists what is available. A filter is
applied or refused, never ignored.
Abdessamad Derraz