Mod authors, please provide a .version file.

[vosechu]

Dearest modders,

Today I stumbled on a quick python script that checks your mods to see if there are updates. I think it's awesome and desperately needed. I've contributed some patches, but it needs help from module authors to add .version files to the mod.

Example version file: https://github.com/tyrope/KSP-addon-version-checker/blob/master/example.version

Project: https://github.com/tyrope/KSP-addon-version-checker

I know this is onerous, so I would be perfectly happy to send pull requests, patches, or whatever you like. Please just let me know what I can do to help.

I'm also game for feedback; though it's not my project, I would be happy to hear your thoughts and see if I can make them happen.

Thank you!

[Faark]

Oh, this topic again. You are at least nicely asking and not demanding for it. Btw, why has no one ever tried to create a version checker based on file hashes?

[vosechu]

You know what Faark, that's a great idea!

I'll see if I can make that happen. At least it'll give us a pretty good idea if something is new. I don't know why I didn't think of that when I was hacking that little bit earlier.

[vosechu]

Ah, one reason Faark is that we aren't totally certain where packages should be downloaded from. Since not everyone uses kerbalspaceport it can be a little confusing. But I'm going to see if I can hack something in that tries to find it on kerbalspaceport.

[vosechu]

You know, now that I think about it the other reason is that we'd have to download the mod each time we wanted to do the checksum. So that will probably necessitate that we run a server somewhere which does exactly that, stores the checksum, so that people can check against the central server.

But that's not necessarily a bad thing. I may be able to do that.

[Tyrope]

Thanks for trying to get the word out on this. Original topic on the project can be found here. I'd like to encourage keeping the conversation in one place.