Dynious
Version Checker 1.1.6a Showing Incorrect amount of updates
The game shows up with 36 updates even when i only have 1 or 2 mods out of date
Is it also showing these updates in the update list or is it just the number on button that's incorrect?
EDIT: If these updates also show in the update list, could you make a screenshot of the list?
Yeap, pretty much in the same boat... Some mods simply have incorrect version data (authors set improper version flag), for such it's understandable that Version Checker is offering newer file (the case of TYNKYN for a fact).
Also look at the case of Random Things, offering older version compared to the newer one already installed... Might want to eliminate that somehow form VersionChecker?
Thanks for the screenshots!
It seems like there are a good amount of correct ones in there, but a lot of them are incorrect. In most of these cases it is impossible for me to fix the false-positive. If you really don't want to get false-positives you can disable NotEnoughMods checking in the config.
Also, it should check if the version is newer than the installed one (this works fine for BluePower for example). I will do a check of my code again to see if I can optimize it.
There is an option to fix most problems: add a vote-type system so incorrect updates are blocked when a certain amount of people vote them out. It should be as simple as pressing a 'This update is incorrect' button. This should then send this info (the vote and the incorrect 'old' and 'new' version) to a server. Every time a check is done it will download the list of blocked mods not check them.
This is a lot of work (maybe too much work?), requires some server coding (which I have never done) and requires a server.
A vote system seems like overkill to me. I think some aggressive false positive filtering might be better (only show updates that you can be certain are real).
From the screenshots, it seems like a simple way to do that would be to simply compare the number of tokens of each string (by splitting them by non-alphanumeric characters). That way, 1.0.0 against 1.0.0-test would be ignored (3 tokens != 4 tokens). It may filter out some real updates, but it'll definitely remove a lot of false positives.
Another check that'd probably have a similar result would be to do if (nemVersion.startsWith(currentlyInstalledVersion)) and assume anything that evaluates as true to be a false positive.
This was auto-closed, but reopend by me to discuss the improvements that will be released in 1.1.6b.
I still got the wrong update notification, i updated the mod already but some mod still show them are not latest version....my version checker's version is 1.1.8
I would assume most of those mods have incorrect versions set in their mcmod.info. Not much Version Checker can do about that.
Can we edit the info file? Although every update the info will change back..