Update "Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six 3 : Raven Shield" script
madoar opened this issue · 4 comments
The following changes should be done:
- change
var
toconst
- think about replacing
Downloader
byResource
The var
to const
is done. What's the advantage of using Resource
? Shouldn't Resource
be used only for stuff which is shared between scripts? If you use it to download big files, I think they will remain in the resources directory and fill up your hard drive.
At least you won't have to redownload them everytime.
Yes, if you install the app again. That's not the normal use case as far as I'm concerned.
For example in verbs it's different: As multiple apps might use the same verbs, it makes sense to keep the resource.
It is not only about keeping the resource. I see two possible benefits of using Resource
over Downloader
:
Resource
could be imagined as a temporary object (i.e. file or directory) that is automatically deleted after exiting the script. This is useful for example when downloading archives or installers that should be deleted afterwards anywayResource
returns the path leading to the downloaded file, this means that you don't need to do any path building on the calling site (e.g.originDirectory + exeName
). This reduces the number of possible errors a script developer can do (for example I'm often asking myself the question:Is there a "/" missing between originDirectory and exeName?
)
In addition Resource
uses Downloader
internally so it is essentially the same anyway