Classpath loading of mods

[02JanDal]

Hello,

 

I am trying to get loading mods from the classpath to work, with the end goal being having a central mods folder for MultiMC. I'm using CodeChickenCore, NEI and Waila for testing. I have tried both in a dev environment (adding the mods to the eclipse classpath) (http://pastebin.com/9f3pgZE4) and from in MultiMC (http://pastebin.com/fuenZX0y), both give similar results (Waila is loaded, CCC and NEI aren't, so Waila complains about missing dependency).

 

Is it because CCC and NEI are coremods? When asking on #minecraftforge the best answer I got was to parse for the METAINF information and give it to FML using -Dfml.coreMods.load, this would be far from ideal and I really hope there is some other way.

 

Jan

[02JanDal]

There are several reasons it's wrong/annoying, the main one being duplicated files.

 

Is this (classpath loading of coremods) something that will be resolved at some point or will they always have to be either put in -Dfml.coreMods.load or the mods/ folder?

[LexManos]

It may be addressed in the future, however, it's not that big of a priority right now.

Coremods will be getting quite a bit of a overhaul sometime in the near future. But not right now.

[02JanDal]

To bad

For coremods (with the FMLCorePlugin metainf attribute) it should be doable, but is there some similar way for tweakers (contain the TweakClass metainf attribute)?

[LexManos]

Nope, but there is only like 2 or 3 things out there that use TweakClass.

It'll be addressed in the future, but not right now.

[02JanDal]

Is it possible that coremods loaded using fml.coreMods.load aren't given the possibility to fetch dependencies? I tried adding CodeChickenCore, but it didn't fetch CodeChickenLib on startup, and then of course complains about it not being available.

[02JanDal]

Ok, sorry, I hade the vague memory that FMLCorePlugin.getLibraryRequestClass would be responsible for that and thought that maybe FML wouldn't call it for command line coremods. Seems like I was wrong though.

[02JanDal]

Ah, ok, I wasn't entirely wrong then.

[02JanDal]

I guess I'll report this here in the hope that it'll get fixed at some point:

 

Several coremods depend on the coremodLocation attribute being passed in with injectData, but for coremods passed in via the command line this is used (null).