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Community App KAG Mod Manager 1.09

Basic app for managing KAG mods with the new web API system

Mods: Downburst, Mazey
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  1. Shadlington

    Shadlington THD Team THD Team Administrator Global Moderator

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    Shadlington submitted a new resource:

    KAG Mod Manager - Crappy (ugly) app for managing KAG mods with the new web API system

    See https://forum.kag2d.com/threads/public-consultation-on-plan-for-mod-distribution-system.12597 for discussion on the new additions to the KAG Web API that this Mod Manager is making use of.

    Read more about this resource...
     
    Shadlington, Jan 22, 2014
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  2. Mazey

    Mazey Haxor Global Moderator Forum Moderator Staff Alumni Donator Official Server Admin

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    Runs well on Wine.
     
    Mazey, Jan 24, 2014
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  3. daimyo21

    daimyo21 Horde Gibber

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    I loaded the mod manager but dont quite understand it. How am I supposed to use the mod through the manager? What if I wanted to edit/add to someones mod and re-upload it with them still credited as the creator.
     
    daimyo21, Jan 25, 2014
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  4. Shadlington

    Shadlington THD Team THD Team Administrator Global Moderator

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    Yeah I really need to post some documentation, will do so tomorrow.
    You can't do what you just described - only the mod developer can do that (an update coming soon will allow developers to be groups instead of just individuals so people can collaborate, but you won't be able to just take someone's work and re-upload it like that without their permission - you'd have to re-register it as a separate mod).
    Also, I need to add the ability to download mods through the manager, which I neglected because it's easy to do so through your browser (though I failed to explain how to do that too :p).
     
    Shadlington, Jan 26, 2014
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  5. Shadlington

    Shadlington THD Team THD Team Administrator Global Moderator

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    Shadlington, Jan 26, 2014
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  6. Shadlington

    Shadlington THD Team THD Team Administrator Global Moderator

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    Added documentation to the resource page (https://forum.kag2d.com/resources/kag-mod-manager.153/), let me know what else is still confusing.

    Updates coming over the next few days:
    - Button to delete mods
    - Options to specify if the mod full/server/client packages are auth-protected (i.e. need your developer credentials to download). So you could make it so that only client packages are freely available.
    - Developer groups (i.e. the developer can be a group of users instead of just individuals, and permissions for who can upload/download code can be set accordingly).
    - Versions (i.e. instead of a single upload/download URL that gets overwritten with every upload, you'll be able to create new versions and upload code specifically for said version).
     
    Last edited: Jan 28, 2014
    Shadlington, Jan 26, 2014
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  7. Shadlington

    Shadlington THD Team THD Team Administrator Global Moderator

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    Shadlington, Jan 28, 2014
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  8. Shadlington

    Shadlington THD Team THD Team Administrator Global Moderator

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    Shadlington updated KAG Mod Manager with a new update entry:

    Fixes + package restriction settings

    Read the rest of this update entry...
     
    Shadlington, Feb 10, 2014
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  9. Shadlington

    Shadlington THD Team THD Team Administrator Global Moderator

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    This is broken and will be until tomorrow/Sunday because I just made some fairly substantial changes to the API that I need to update the app to accommodate.

    From the next release you'll be able to set a mod up with a devgroup as the developer, instead of just an individual.

    ...I'll probably have to create a new app for registering devgroups though :p
     
    Shadlington, Feb 22, 2014
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  10. Shadlington

    Shadlington THD Team THD Team Administrator Global Moderator

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    Sorry this has been delayed a little, won't be ready till Monday.
    ...I got pissed off at my own shitty code and spent considerably longer than planned re-writing it.
     
    Shadlington, Feb 24, 2014
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  11. Shadlington

    Shadlington THD Team THD Team Administrator Global Moderator

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    Shadlington, Feb 24, 2014
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  12. Shadlington

    Shadlington THD Team THD Team Administrator Global Moderator

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    Shadlington, Feb 25, 2014
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  13. Shadlington

    Shadlington THD Team THD Team Administrator Global Moderator

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    Shadlington, Mar 6, 2014
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  14. norill

    norill Confirmed Sociopath THD Team Tester
    1. REKINS OF SEAS: Super Crew of Ultimate Havoking 2: Return of King of KAG: Chapter 420blazeit - REKIN

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    dumping flawed sha1 algorithm in favour of completely broken md5 algorithm. cant say i like it
     
    norill, Mar 7, 2014
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  15. Shadlington

    Shadlington THD Team THD Team Administrator Global Moderator

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    The hashing isn't meant to be super-secure, the main thing is for it to be fast (as we're dealing with digests of entire folders).
    And MD5 is faster than SHA1, plus we already have a decent MD5 lib in KAG so no extra bloat.
    ...If security becomes an issue then I'll change it.
     
    Shadlington, Mar 7, 2014
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  16. norill

    norill Confirmed Sociopath THD Team Tester
    1. REKINS OF SEAS: Super Crew of Ultimate Havoking 2: Return of King of KAG: Chapter 420blazeit - REKIN

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    sha-2 has performance of 154 MiB/s on 2GHz CPU, while my whole Mods folder, containing probably every mod ever published is 30MiB. so it would take 0.2s to hash whole folder. its roughly 2 times slower than md5, and 2^248 times more secure
     
    norill, Mar 7, 2014
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  17. Shadlington

    Shadlington THD Team THD Team Administrator Global Moderator

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    I guess bloat was my main concern, I'll take a look and see if I can find any cross-platform SHA-2 libs for C++ that don't require me to also link in an entire hashing platform. I was unsuccessful before but I guess I gave up fairly early in my search.
     
    Shadlington, Mar 7, 2014
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  18. Shadlington

    Shadlington THD Team THD Team Administrator Global Moderator

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    Just released a stand-alone python script that mod devs can use to quickly re-generate their mod registration.json file directly on the server, via command line: https://github.com/Shadlington/KAGModRegGenerate

    You need Python installed as well as the Python module requests in order to use it. More details on the github page.

    Sidenote: Still working on that SHA-2 thing. Having some trouble getting a SHA-2 lib to work with KAG, but hopefully that'll be resolved tomorrow.
     
    Shadlington, Mar 9, 2014
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  19. Shadlington

    Shadlington THD Team THD Team Administrator Global Moderator

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    Shadlington, Mar 10, 2014
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  20. Diprog

    Diprog Bison Rider Tester
    1. FUN Servers

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    When I try to register mod with the name "FUN" it says "A mod with this developer and name URL already exists, please try another name URL", but when I press refresh list of mods has nothing
     
    Diprog, Mar 11, 2014
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