Multimc5: Add Curse Modpack support

Created on 22 Aug 2016 · 7Comments · Source: MultiMC/MultiMC5

Add support for the Curse Minecraft Launcher's modpacks muck like the FTB Launcher modpack integration

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Firestar311

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The develop version actually has a way to import curse modpacks now.

It's not connecting directly to curse APIs and it's not tracking... Basically, some awesome people cracked open the curse API and wrote a caching proxy that doesn't require me to implement any of the curse insanity.

See: https://cursemeta.dries007.net/

peterix on 21 Sep 2017

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Not going to happen.

peterix on 22 Aug 2016

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Why?

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Firestar311 on 22 Aug 2016

It is easy enough to create an instance and copy over what needs to be copied over.

Like this for example:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Akwh8F2bIq4

I also do not want to emulate other launcher's logic. Every single one is slightly different. What made FTB viable was that it started with an old MultiMC-based design.But it also made me keep certain things around for a lot longer than they should have been around.

Curse is too different. What _would_ be viable is some sort of one-shot import function. Because once it's in MultiMC's format, I don't have to worry about the other launcher changing.

What would be ideal is directly connecting to the curse platform... but I talked to the curse people and their conditions for that happening are simply not acceptable. To put it plainly: I'm not interested in contributing to a private business/corporation for free while they dictate what OS I can do it on.

peterix on 22 Aug 2016

So, definitely not going to do this 'tracking' thing again with other launchers. Once the FTB launcher is obsolete, I will remove support for it, along with some other things (legacy instances, old LWJGL version list, possibly a few thousand lines of code).

Support for the curse platform is out of the question. It's still better than FTB where the FTB people just said 'NO', but nowhere near acceptable from my point of view.

Import... maybe. Given how simple it is already, I don't see it as a priority though.

peterix on 22 Aug 2016

Where to get links to modpacks?

ExpertsGaming on 27 Mar 2017

I'm curious, do you have any documentation on Curse's stance on this? I've been getting increasingly irritated with Curse over a number of other things, and I'd like to learn more about what kind of demands they make for integration.

I pretty strongly get the impression that the community shouldn't trust them in the slightest, by now.