Schema v2

[Prospector]

Things to discuss:

• Localizable mod descriptions
• Links to mod dependencies. (Ideally I'd love a full metadata for them but that's too crazy to ask lol. A link to their page for the Suggestions and Recommendations seems good though)

[gbl]

Dependencies could use a "get dependency X from website Y" entry so people know where to get what's missing. This may be a security issue though with people posting a "harmless" mod to curseforge and including a "dangerous" link, thus getting users to download stuff they shouldn't.

Also, a "If optional dependency U is installed, the mod will do V" description might be helpful.

[asiekierka]

From me: No to links, yes to descriptive dependencies.

[3TUSK]

For translatable mod description - it may out of fabric-loader's scope - nonetheless we can just define a key reserved for mod description. Something like mod.[modid].description. And everyone will use it.
The problem of this approach is that it is a bit hard to enforce.

[Player3324]

From https://github.com/FabricMC/fabric-loader/pull/122 and https://github.com/FabricMC/fabric/pull/235 the following properties seem useful:

• "parent", if present, refers to the mod id acting as the main mod for the current mod (modules, addons) for nested displaying
• "hidden", if present and true, hides the mod from mod counts or mod lists as desired by the specific displaying implementation
• "remoteRequired", boolean or version predicate string declaring whether the same mod id needs to be present on the other side of a client<->server connection and for strings also the required mod version. The validation needs to be implemented elsewhere, such as fabric-api, and is not necessarily exhaustive

While the features are inspired by Mod Menu's use cases, they are valuable for producing readable enhanced crash reports, automatically stripping client/server side mod pack archives, organizing UIs, bisecting and more

[Player3324]

On further thought remoteRequired should probably have true mean exact version match (common case, use wildcard string for any) or no boolean at all (requires specifying the version twice though)

[JustPyrrha]

it would be nice to have a role string for authors. something like

{
    "name": "JoeZwet",
    "role": "Developer",
    "contact": { ... }
}

[natanfudge]

Dependencies should specify a display name so users know what mod they need to download.