How about a Mod Installer

Posted: Sun Aug 03, 2003 12:01 pm

One of the things I liked about the YABB Forums, (I know, I know), was that their development community built a mod installer that would take the mod and apply it to the relavent files and keep track of the mods that had been applied. Their web address is http://boardmod.yabbforum.com/yabb/YaBB.pl
There was a syntax for the mod files so that boardmod program would edit all of the relevant text in all of the relevant files.
If the Nuke mod community wrote mod files using this syntax, I think it would work with any program, Nuke Included.
It had an error checker so that if you tried to modify a file that had already been modified with another mod, it would stop the process and warn you that it couldn't find the relevant text. This might be a great help to Nuke users who are not php savvy.

Captain Joined: Oct 20, 2003 Posts: 335

Hey, I was thinking the same thing! A standardized module/block installer. I have no problem installing things now, but at first.... having to go to phpadmin and play with stuff in there I was not familiar with was kinda scary, I'd say most users can't/won't do it. But -anyone- could and would be willing to click an install button.