Rubidium wrote:

That's difficult as the files are within a .tar file. As such we can't simply run an external command to open them, unless we unpack them somewhere first but then you're going to create a mess of files that just duplicates. In my opinion too much work for too little benefit.

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PaulC wrote:

The files won't necessarily be inside a tar, that's only really if you install via bananas. If you get your grfs etc from elsewhere (e.g the forums) then that probably won't be the case, plus of course you can always unpack the tar manually.

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frosch wrote:

The readme viewer only works for stuff in tars. So, it is meant for stuff from bananas; which should also be the usecase for the majority of users.

Anyway, we already support oopening URLs on the web for NewGRFs and iirc also for AIs and GSs. We might want to add that for basesets as well.

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PaulC wrote:

Frosh: That's not correct. As I said on the forums just the other day, the readme viewer works perfectly fine with unpacked subfolders.

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PaulC wrote:

To expand on my last few comments, such a feature would primarily be of benefit to non-bananas, non-tar grfs. Some of the more popular examples would be the various Canadian/NA grfs which are not on bananas and come with pdf readmes, or Michael Blunck's grfs which are also not available on bananas and come with html readmes.

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andythenorth closed the ticket.

Reason for closing: Won't implement

This could be a neat feature (I provide html docs for my grfs). But 1. Bananas can't accept html or pdf in the package files, and is work to change 2. html and PDF can be provided online (project website, repo or forums). That does require an internet connection, but so many things do, I think it's ok.

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