FOSS gamedev and creative worlds

Ok so i noticed in some mods in minecraft send you a message in chat when you join ex:

Could there be a minetest.notify(reason or something, "message") so modders can tell the people using mods that there is an update. Also in the minetest.conf there should be a setting like notify = false/true

There is minetest.log() or minetest.chat_send_all().

The problem is not the notify, but rather the checking.

For a server, it might be pretty annoying if there'd be some mods who'd constantly tell that there are new versions available. Perhaps the Minetest Mod Database - which is already partly integrated into the game engine - could be used to check if newer versions where uploaded. I'm just afraid that people won't remember to manually generate and upload packages each time they change something small on a mod.

rubenwardy wrote:The problem is not the notify, but rather the checking.

Sokomine wrote:For a server, it might be pretty annoying if there'd be some mods who'd constantly tell that there are new versions available. Perhaps the Minetest Mod Database - which is already partly integrated into the game engine - could be used to check if newer versions where uploaded. I'm just afraid that people won't remember to manually generate and upload packages each time they change something small on a mod.

i would like to point out

The AMAZING ME!!! wrote:Also in the minetest.conf there should be a setting like notify = false/true

When I said checking, i meant download the latest version number from the internet, and checking again current.



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