Design of record for a deployment tool that takes a stock ServUO install and
configures it for Runic Gateway. Supersedes the informal overview it grew from,
which described a ServUO integration that does not match how servuo-plugins
actually ships.
Corrections that change the design:
- There is no RunicGateway.dll and no Plugins/ dir. The plugin ships as C#
source compiled by ServUO at boot, so the step is a hash-compare sync of
overlay/ -- but a successful copy does not mean a working bridge, because
ScriptCompiler.Compile() ignores dotnet build's exit code and reloads the
stale Scripts.dll.
- Stock ServUO files ARE modified, by three diffs in patches/. Made an opt-in,
skippable tier: git apply against a hand-modified shard will fail, and the
EventSink.cs patch needs a full core solution rebuild.
- Config paths collided with what the sidecar actually reads. Split ownership:
sidecar.toml stays the sidecar's schema, install.json is the installer's.
Service definitions pin UOLINK_CONFIG and UOLINK_DB_PATH, since the sidecar
writes relative to CWD and would land in VirtualStore under Program Files.
- The token handoff was missing entirely -- the largest "installed it and
nothing happened" failure mode.
- deploy.ps1 cannot be the cross-platform deployer; it stays the developer tool.
Decisions: public audience, unsigned binaries anchored on SHA256SUMS, Rust,
release-tarball plugin distribution, printed token handoff, new installer repo,
warn-and-skip on non-57.4 ServUO, and an uninstall that never edits the shard
tree -- it prints the files to delete and the hunks to revert.
Phases 0-5, with Phase 0 (a release workflow for servuo-plugins, which has
none today) gating everything else. Two open questions remain in section 8.
Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
