Addon system similar to Apt, Yum, or Chocolatey

[theviacom]

It's simple: From the console, you can simply type "connect("REPONAME");".

After that, you type in an addon name, such as "System_BlocklandGlass."

You then type "install("System_BlocklandGlass");"

You then go on with your day unabashed.

You can also update with update("name") and remove with rm("name").

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[Verification]

this would be very useful for self-hosted dedicated servers

[Rolfey95]

this would be very useful for self-hosted dedicated servers

like me

[Conan]

adding addons isn't particularly hard but removing datablocks while the server is active is impossible as far as i know, at least without a dll

ill summarize the steps later

[mctwist]

[...] removing datablocks while the server is active is impossible as far as i know, at least without a dll

One basically needs to notify the clients to invalidate and remove the datablock and then remove it on the server. I would recommend the approach of Unity: Layers of loading, and then remove layers and reload them on top of the other.

[theviacom]

adding addons isn't particularly hard but removing datablocks while the server is active is impossible as far as i know, at least without a dll

ill summarize the steps later

One basically needs to notify the clients to invalidate and remove the datablock and then remove it on the server. I would recommend the approach of Unity: Layers of loading, and then remove layers and reload them on top of the other.

Then just implement a check for if the server's running or not with the commands.  If a server's running, then stop the commands before they happen.  If a server isn't running, then let the commands happen.

[mctwist]

The biggest change would be to add a way to remove functions, as you're disabling Add-Ons. There's several problems with this, though:

• The game have no clue what function is for what Add-On, leaving them in the open.
• Other Add-Ons don't know that an Add-On was removed, thus their check when starting the game is wasted, even though those Add-Ons should be removed as well.

Basically, we're making a new game engine by adding this single addition.

Edit: But on topic: Making this Unix-like system actually already exists, sort of. First we got the Updater to download the required files. This is although restricted to that you already got the Add-Ons. Then we got the internal system to load an Add-On. It's quite crude, but it's workable.

Actually, I have my LoadAddon, but it was failed on this forum as it screwed up Badspots new content download system. It worked perfectly fine, though.

[theviacom]

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I sort of imagine that you could use the same methods addon managers like BlocklandGlass does for downloading addons and removing/disabling them.  If anything, removing could be done through using Torque's file handling and downloading could be done somehow involving Greek's Support_TCP.

Even if you get over these technical obstructions, that doesn't solve the need for an addon hosting solution to make something central or standardized, or to make an "official" repository.