A stock publish shipped native debug symbols to players: libSkiaSharp.pdb
(80 MB) and libHarfBuzzSharp.pdb (20 MB) from Avalonia's rendering packages
were 100 MB of a 278 MB launcher payload. MSBuild's DebugType switches only
govern our own managed symbols, not native .pdb files arriving as package
runtime assets, so the payload build drops every .pdb before zipping.
launcher-win-x64.zip 103.4 -> 77.4 MB, client 44.5 -> 43.6 MB. The launcher
payload now also fits under GitHub's 100 MB per-file limit, though the feed
stays on the Gitea-only dist branch to keep main's history clean.
Also fixes a StrictMode crash in the lock-file warning: an empty git status
result is null, not an empty array, so .Count threw at the end of a
successful publish.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The launcher reported "no client available" because its update source was
pinned to a GitHub Releases manifest in a PRIVATE repo — nothing anonymous
could ever be fetched from it. Switch the feed to the PUBLIC Gitea repo so a
friend needs no account, and add the two commands that publish it.
- ReleaseManifestClient.ProductionManifestUri now points at
git.snakedesert.se/erik/acdream raw on the `dist` branch. No update
machinery changed: the existing strict reader already accepts any HTTPS
manifest, so this is a URL swap plus a build script.
- tools/publish-bin.ps1 publishes the payloads into /bin and writes
bin/manifest.json (schema v1, SHA-256 + size per artifact):
client-win-x64.zip AcDream.App + acdream-headless
launcher-win-x64.zip acdream-launcher + co-deployed acdream-bake
Stamps InformationalVersion ONLY — never -p:Version, which also rewrites
project-reference versions inside the committed packages.<rid>.lock.json
files and churned every one of them with a throwaway build stamp.
- tools/publish-dist.ps1 pushes /bin to the Gitea-only `dist` branch from a
throwaway worktree, leaving the developer's checkout, index, and HEAD
untouched. It refuses a GitHub remote outright.
Why `dist` and not main: the launcher payload is ~103 MB because the launcher
and its co-deployed bake CLI are each self-contained single files (deliberate,
see AcDream.Launcher.csproj). GitHub hard-rejects files over 100 MB, and all
three refs currently track main, so payloads on main would break every GitHub
push. `dist` is a single-commit orphan branch that each publish REPLACES, so
superseded builds never accumulate. /bin stays gitignored repo-wide and is
force-added only on that branch.
Verified live: manifest and both payloads serve anonymously over HTTPS, and a
downloaded client payload matches its declared SHA-256 and size byte for byte.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Both attempts removed from the branch by user direction after live
gates (attempt 1 culled the interior — the 'fixed' exit was a
nothing-drawn false positive; attempt 2's luminosity port produced no
visible change, theory-vs-plumbing unresolved). Patches preserved in
the session scratchpad. Next attempt starts with apparatus: tunnel
freeze probe, RenderDoc capture, ACViewer oracle, retail side-by-side.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
While a destination reservation hides the world behind the tunnel, the
frame meter runs on a hold-widened profile (2 ms -> 8 ms destination
lane, non-destination lane absolute caps unchanged), reverting the frame
the reservation ends. Measured: warm-process portal hold gate-ready
3.6 s / total 8.7 s (retail-feel band); login drip 6-7 s -> 3.0 s with
the remaining login floor now attributed to process cold-start warmup
(~8 s concurrent phase), the next #418 lever. Tunnel held 64-66 fps
through the burst; mid-game no-hold path bit-identical (test-pinned).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
While a destination reservation hides the world behind the authored
tunnel, the streaming frame meter now runs a hold-widened profile
(StreamingWorkBudget.WidenForDestinationHold): the time ceiling rises
from the authored 2 ms to an absolute 8 ms default
(ACDREAM_STREAM_WORK_HOLD_DEST_MS is a measurement-only override), every
count/byte dimension scales by the same factor so elapsed time stays the
authoritative guard (the measured binder is Time at both ceilings), and
the reserve fraction is re-derived (0.75 -> 0.9375) so the
NON-destination lane's absolute per-frame caps are unchanged. The
widening keys off the existing BeginDestinationReservation/
EndDestinationReservation bracket only, is derived per-Tick from the
CURRENT budget (mid-hold quality swaps compose), and a frame with no
reservation uses the authored budget verbatim (test-pinned). Portal
holds ride the same bracket as login holds by construction - intended,
and pinned by a kind-parity test through the real coordinator plus a
live @telepoi portal hold (kind=portal gate-ready 3589 ms).
Why: issue #418's next-hypothesis (1). Measured result: the ~5 s
publication drip collapsed to ~2 s (loaded 625/625 at ~3.0 s, tunnel at
64-66 fps), the portal-hold gate-ready fell to ~3.6 s - and login
gate-ready/total stayed at 8.4-8.8 s / 12.6-12.7 s, exposing the real
remaining pacer: the login-cold render-thread upload/registration
barrier behind GpuWorldState.IsRenderReady, which ran concurrently under
the old drip. Full attribution appended to docs/ISSUES.md #418; no
divergence-register row (the streamed result and reveal gate are
byte-identical; only the scheduling rate during a hidden hold changed).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
