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Published 20 hours ago • verified publisher icon noidexe

Add CLI support

Open noidexe opened this issue 2 years ago • 7 comments

noidexe avatar Jan 25 '23 18:01 noidexe

Any ideas on how this is gonna work? Is it gonna be similar to pyenv/nvm or is it gonna just open X project in X version?

Doomwhite avatar Jan 26 '23 14:01 Doomwhite

I plan to separate all components as much as possible in a couple of singletons providing the different services. So for example Downloader.gd will let you queue a download, abort it, check it's progress. Visual representation will be handled in a different script(and asociated nodes/scene). So it will be the same API to be consumed by the GUI frontend or the CLI frontend.

For the CLI itself the idea is to have a nice API that allows you to do the same things you can do visually, but through the command line.

For example: gvm get version 3.5.2-rc2 will download and install Godot 3.5.2-rc2 gvm add project "My Game" at path "/path/to/project/" with version 3.5.2-rc2 will add that project to the list of projects and assign Godot 3.5.2-rc2 as its version (and maybe download it if necessary) gvm launch project named "My Game" will get the list of projects by name, find "My Game" and launch it with it's assigned version gvm set version 3.6 for project named "My Game" will change the assigned version into 3.6 (and maybe download it if necessary) gvm list projects will return a numbered list of projects gvm launch project #2 will launch project number 2 from the returned list

I'm just coming up with this examples right now. GVM 1.x was mostly something I quickly hacked together. For 2.0 the idea would be to plan it thoroughly, prioritize and then start implementing it

noidexe avatar Jan 27 '23 01:01 noidexe

Is it planned if/when this happens we would get a headless build as well? I would be interested in getting a Godot version manager as a CLI tool only.

kintrix007 avatar Mar 25 '23 00:03 kintrix007

Yes, the idea is that if it can be used in cli mode you should be able to run it in headless mode and also non-interactively (from a script). I was pretty busy with GDC these days but I'd like to start working on it as soon as possible

noidexe avatar Mar 28 '23 13:03 noidexe

Alright, that's amazing to hear! Just as a note, though: gvm is already the name of the Go Version Manager. You may want to consier gdvm or similar.

kintrix007 avatar Mar 28 '23 15:03 kintrix007

Thanks for the info. Yeah I'm considering what to do regarding the name. "Godot Version Manager" is descriptive and worked well for an internal project, but for something publicly accessible I think it could be confused with an official tool. Besides, the new version will also manage projects as well. I'm thinking of using a fantasy name instead of an acronym and I'll try my best to avoid any collisions with other apps.

noidexe avatar Mar 29 '23 16:03 noidexe

For those wanting CLI support, there's https://github.com/chickensoft-games/GodotEnv by @chickensoft-games

noidexe avatar Oct 08 '23 15:10 noidexe