Possible bug in scient patch 2.0

[DrazharLn]

Beta v2.1 installer

Edit: re-uploaded with the required changes to helpx.txt to fix the overflow error, and some other minor changes.

Edit: also put the git repo up on github: https://github.com/DrazharLn/scient-unofficial-smacx-patch

[Induktio]

So lines need to be hard-wrapped at X characters? Do we know what X is? Otherwise I guess I can just wrap them at whatever the original helpx had as its max length. (Edit the max length in the GOG helpx.txt is 121 chars, so I'll wrap them there).

It would be best to take the longest lines from the original files and use it as a limit that should never be exceeded. I'm not sure about the exact limit before the overflow occurs because I didn't trace the execution line by line. It might be even possible it varies by the file type but that is unconfirmed. Nice command line tools btw.

[DrazharLn]

Yup, I wrapped at 124 chars (longest line in original english helpx.txt). There are much longer lines in the French version, but whatever.

Here's the tool I ended up writing to do it.

https://github.com/DrazharLn/scient-unofficial-smacx-patch/blob/master/lineshortener.py

Anyway, 2.1 above has both sets of changes.

[bvanevery]

The original French version could be bugged.  Has anyone tested it?

[DrazharLn]

The original french files do not cause the crash. I haven't tried to work out why. Possibly there's just one really long line and it's not somewhere that SMAC actually tries to read from.

I have uploaded v2.1 of scient's patch to both the downloads section here and the github release page of the repo.

https://github.com/DrazharLn/scient-unofficial-smacx-patch