YAMM - Yet Another Mod Manager
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A first-pass barebone prototype for a mod download/management system
Goal is to work as a plugin for Mod Organizer
This works by subscribing to various mod services, and then use
published data from those to resolve dependencies and download mods
in a distributed way.
A lot is missing, but especially metadata like filesize and hash of files is missing.
With a secure hash included, mod sites can let volunteers help with file hosting
without having to trust them completely.
The JSON itself can be generated from existing databases,
either dynamically on request or static on updates.
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Running via GUI:
1. Install Python (version 2) from python.org
2. Then double click on the "yammy ui.pyw" file.
- First start might be a bit slow as it has to
set up the database and download metadata
3. Double click the mod you want installed
4. Click "Download mods"
5. Click "Start download"
6. All needed files will be downloaded to files/ subdir
Mod Organizer plugin:
/!\ This is very much work in progress, and generally doesn't work very well
If you have copied the utils/plugin_MO.py to Mod Organizer's plugin directory,
and checked "Install in Mod Organizer after download" it will try to install
the mod to Mod Organizer, where Mod Organizer will pop up a dialoge asking for name
and doing the usual install procedure.
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CLI Example use:
# Build index and initialize DB
python yamm.py add "http://terra.thelazy.net/yamm/mods.json"
python yamm.py update
python yamm.py search ui
python yamm.py search defeat
python yamm.py show SkyUI
python yamm.py show Defeat
python yamm.py download Defeat
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Actual mod installataion / management not included,
since goal is to have MO do that.
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Troubleshooting:
If something doesn't work:
- Ensure you have the latest code
- Delete mods.db and rebuild index