How can I get a working app manifest (that will update) for GemRB?

[elisimpson]

GemRB is an open source interpreter for Infinite Engine games:
https://gemrb.org/

The releases are provided on SourceForge:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/gemrb/files/

However, the GemRB release stucture is strange: a zip with a release number is normal enough (gemrb-win32-v0.9.4.zip), but inside the zip is a directory with a random hex string at the end, possibly a build ID (gemrb-win32-d297710). This build ID changes with every release. So I need to either reference it in an extract_dir to get the executable in a consistent place from version to version, or if I don't use extract_dir I need the build ID for the path to the bin and/or shortcuts values.

Not sure how to proceed as the normal regex/capture variable pattern for checkver doesn't work if the build ID isn't in the filename somewhere.

Any ideas?

[aliesbelik]

Wonder if you could use Github release page instead
https://github.com/gemrb/gemrb/releases/latest
to extract both version and commit SHA with single regex.

Try e.g. Main/geth for reference.

P.S.: Guess this belongs rather to scoop-games bucket instead of Extras.

[elisimpson]

Worked perfectly, great idea!!