The store could only offer what an emulator boots, which meant cartridges
and nothing else — a little under half the catalog. Batocera runs Linux
and its Ports system takes .sh launchers, so a native build can be
installed too; it just is not a ROM.
`install: "port"` unpacks the zip, finds the executable and writes a
launcher that cd's into its directory first, because a game loads assets
relative to the working directory. Python's extraction drops the
executable bit, so it is restored from the mode the archive records.
The payload lives under ports/.data/<subfolder>/, whose leading dot is
what hides it from EmulationStation, while the launchers sit in a normal
subfolder that gets scanned like any other system's. Both carry the store
subfolder, so an uninstall or prune cannot reach another store's files —
verified by pointing a state entry at a foreign namespace and watching it
be refused.
Verified end to end on aarch64 against the live catalog: bevydemo
installs as a port with an executable launcher and binary, re-syncs
without re-downloading 29 MB, and uninstalls taking its 106 MB payload
with it. `install` defaults to rom, so existing configs are unaffected.
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Batocera runs on x86_64 mini-PCs, on the Raspberry Pi and on the ARM
handhelds alike. A cartridge is data for an emulator and runs anywhere,
which is why this store has been portable so far — but a native build
only starts on the architecture it was built for, and an x86_64 binary
installed on a Pi is worse than one never offered.
`kind` and `ext` may now be a map from architecture to value, with `*`
as a fallback; a plain string still means "the same everywhere", so
existing configs are untouched. The detected architecture is reported at
the top of `list` and as `detected_arch` in `config`, and a title with no
asset for the running machine is skipped with a reason that names it.
Verified on aarch64 against the live catalog: the cartridge config
behaves exactly as before, a bevy entry mapped per architecture pulls
bevydemo-1.0.0-linux-arm64.zip, and the binary inside is an AArch64 ELF.
A map without an entry for the machine skips and says so.
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