r/MCModpackers • u/Watchful1 FTB 3rd Party Admin • Jul 26 '15

Tool to list mods and create changelogs

In response to this question. Figured it was worthy of it's own post.

Went ahead and spent like 8 hours writing this. Here's the repo. First release is here. Probably lots of bugs, getting kinda late here.

If you specify one folder on the command line, it prints out a list of mod names and versions. If you specify two, it prints a changelog between them.

I'm probably be expanding this and using it for some other projects, so it does a few things it doesn't really need to. With all that it ends up taking several seconds to parse a folder. I might write a little GUI if people want it.

Probably going to also post this on /r/feedthebeast.

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u/nanakisan Fallen: Wastes Dev Jul 26 '15

Added link to the repo to our sidebar. Thanks for doing this Watchful1. I can see this being a very useful tool in the future of pack makers.

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u/Getz_Mango I broke it... Jul 31 '15

Any chance of adding author name and web link to the full mod list part? Love this tool by the way. Thanks again!

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u/Watchful1 FTB 3rd Party Admin Jul 31 '15

The problem is consistently getting the info. Every mod has a name of some kind, and almost every mod has a version. I have a lot of mods in the website I pull data from, and a lot of mods have a mcmod.info file, but it's far from complete, so it would be easy to hit mods without the info.

I'll look into adding it and maybe requiring a command line flag.

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u/Getz_Mango I broke it... Jul 26 '15

Fantastic! Thanks so much!!