A server lists Thunderstore packages in plugins.required ("Owner-Name", or "Owner-Name-1.2.3"
for at least that version, at most 16). It checks each on Thunderstore as it starts and leaves
out one not listed as a plugin, and sends the rest with its map offer (protocol 55).
A joining player's game checks them before the server's map loads. Those missing, switched off
or too old go on one card with the map when that is missing too, so the player is asked once.
GET ALL downloads and installs each, switches on any that were off, runs one live merge when
any brings game data, and joins; CANCEL leaves. The game fetches a package only when
Thunderstore lists it as a plugin and it installs as one (a reskate-plugin.json naming Luau
code), whatever a server asks; anything else is taken out again, so a cosmetic can never be
required.
map_download handles a list of packages instead of one map, and the Thunderstore chooser takes
the category it needs. A map alone keeps its card as it was.
Follow-up to #225. The session still waits 30 minutes in all for a map
(checking, the two-minute question, download, install, apply, join), and
servers and lobbies still let a player go at 30 minutes. But a download
that has begun is no longer cut off at 27 minutes: a large map on a slow
connection never came at all that way.
- Once the download has begun, the session's deadline is the session's
alone. The download goes on (up to its own four hours, as before #225),
installs and is applied, and the player is told to join again; no
rejoin is tried past the deadline, where the server would turn them
away. "Map still downloading" says so when the session stops waiting.
- Before the download, the deadline still ends the check and the question.
Declining or cancelling still stops it and removes the partial file.
- A download whose session has gone is not cancelled by joining another
session; a new map need is turned away until it is done.
- The 27-minute transfer budget and its completion reserve are gone from
map_fetch_policy.h, with their tests; the map download tests cover the
new behaviour.
- The HTTPS timeout test compiles with warnings as errors (a signed and
unsigned comparison), and get_text's stale-file removal is indented again.
- README: map downloads described as they now are.
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