Modding for older minecraft in new forge?

[RalphFox]

Hello, i'm starting to learn how to mod, and i'd like to know if it is possible to, for example, install forge for 1.6.4 and have the mod work with 1.5.2 ;

 

Or i need to have for each minecraft version, an different(lets say,->) eclipse environment dev?

[Draco18s]

No.

 

1.5.2 is so far different than 1.6.4 that you will not be able to effectively create mods for 1.5.2

 

You can set up separate workspaces for a single installation of Eclipse, though the one time I tried to do it, it blew up in my face.  Eclipse is so small I don't mind keeping four or five copies for each different version of Minecraft I'm working with, with repositories of the mod code kept on Dropbox (just copy back and forth when I switch mods).

[Draco18s]

Ummm... Draco? You don't have to install eclipse again to use a different workspace!

 

No, I don't, I know that.

I do, however, like being able to run Eclipse and have it already in the workspace I want to use.

 

But I'm not worried about saving 2-400 MB of hard drive space on a 500 GB 1 TB drive.*

 

I've set myself up in a way that is convenient for me.

 

*Literally 0.03%.  Not worth the time lost by using a single install and the File->Switch Workspace option.