Optionals moved into launchable mod folders

[john681611]

When merged this pull request will:

• make.py now builds optionals within folders that makes them launchable in the vanilla editor
• Fixes Format Optional pbos to be loadable in A3 Launcher #5036

[thojkooi]

If we wish to go down this road, optionals should probably become seperate release packages, like we have done with the RHS compats on Steam.

I'm not sure having a bunch of @* directories in the optionals folder is desirable, expect for maybe the default Arma3 launcher. I don't see it gaining us much, but I am happy for this to be discussed further.

[john681611]

This does not stop the separate packages on steam at all. The @ symbol isn't required it works without (I've added it so it works with publish). For those we decide not to publish to the variety of locations it will give players nice prepacked mods which means its less work for players even if they don't use the vanilla launcher.

[bux]

TBH I'd like to see the optionals moved to separate repos.

[Dystopian]

I vote for this. Managing optionals on every update is annoying.

[jonpas]

Let's do this for 3.13.0 then if no other concerns are found. Don't want to break people's setups (especially where automated) shortly before release.

[john681611]

*rises from grave
Any work needed to be done on this?

[Dystopian]

no john681611, waiting for 3.13

[jonpas]

@john681611 as @Dystopian said, no, it looks good, but we want to make doubly sure nothing will break with it when we want to release, and also warn people in advance that this will change.

[commy2]

Merge now?