This is a small application intended to make the management of mods, prior to playing Minecraft easier.
It should work by copying (or linking) the required mods from a number of modfile directories into the
mods directory of the installation as well as removing any copies (or links) of mods that are not desired at this time.
To do this the user will have a list of mods that are currently installed and will be activated (depending on the version of minecraft that will be played) - note that it is perfectly OK to have mods installed for multiple versions at the same time.
There is also a panel which lists all mods
Mods are read from two places (at least for forge):
- Global Mods: are read from the
.minecraft/modsdirectory - Version Specific Mods: are read from the
.minecraft/mods/x.y.zdirectory
One option is for the user to add a mod along with some metadata, Minecraft Version (poss global), Mod Name (their choice) etc. and the Mod Manager will then store all the mods in a dedicated directory structure (Mod Library) which is then read by the main application.
If possible, pre loading some mod data based on the hash of the mod file would make this more pleasant.
One tab for each version and global mods
Each tab has list of the mods available & installed which are selected by checkboxes.
The user has a list of all mods with checkboxes (as for option 1) but this time the checkboxes are for each version. This allows installation of all versions to be managed in the same place
Once done (for all versions) then the user presses a button and the relevant links/copies are made/removed