This project is still mostly in planning stage. Even the name is not final, right now it sounds generic and also far too similar to MC-Build. But for a rough idea of my vision for the tool, see the example build script and the result of a recent brainstorming session.
The project's progress is documented on the roadmap.
The results of my very first brainstorming session are here.
Ever since snapshot 18w47b, the client.jar (and server.jar) of
each Minecraft version has included a version.json which contains
information such as the data and resource pack format number and world
format.
I've written a tool I call the Meta Extractor
which extracts the contents of version.json from all the client.jar
files which contain it and compiles the results in a
single file.
Additionally, I've written another script which can transform the output of the Meta Extractor. For example, it can generate a JSON file in which you can directly look up the data and/or resource pack format number for any version, e.g.:
{
"data": {
"1.14": 4,
...
"1.21.4": {
"resource": 46,
"data": 61
},
...
}
}
And all of that just so I can do pack_format('1.21.4') instead of pack_format(61)
in my build script! You could say I procrastinated. But maybe, someone will find this
data useful, I don't know...