[Utility] Community Updater

[2cwldys]

A third-party community updater tool, made to emulate mod.io functionality.
Fully open-sourced, and licensed under the MIT license.

Spoiler: VIDEO SHOWCASE

Features:
- Allows creatives to upload their custom moviebattles content, up to 2GB compressed (subject to github limitations.)
(If your assets are larger than 2GB, consider using this method instead.)
- Any content you download, is logged in a client.json, and you have the ability to remove content you no longer like.
- Each time the program is run, it grabs the latest repositories.json from the upstream repository, showing players the latest content accessible at all times.
- Versioning support, if your github releases increment with semantic versioning, it will track latest releases, showing red or green text for names in regard to sync.
- Moviebattles music that plays when the application opens, the settings are persistent upon different runtimes, including volume tweaks in your client.json.
- Persistent MBII directory sync, it will forever remember where your MBII directory is when entered.
- Content creators are in full and complete control over distribution of their work.
- Support for linux users, if they use WINE.

Policies for including your work:
- Assets that would result in your, or others delistment will be considered forbidden.
- No cheats, such as grenade trail PK3s, or invisible scopes, things of that nature, are permitted.
- If you are modifying existing assets, you must include this in your repository description.
- Ensure you have no stolen assets and provide an index of special thanks & credit attribution.
- Your release tags on your repository must follow semantic versioning (e.g: v1.0.0~).
- Ensure your .PK3s are named the same and consistent, so they can be replaced by version changes.
- Assets can be removed at any time upon request, of creating a github issue.
- Each release artifact must be release.zip, containing your .PK3s inside.
- All assets must be MBII related upon inspection.

Maintainers:
Supremacy Dev Team
- 2cwldys
- ACHUTA/Mantlar
- GCJ/John
- ViceDice

I am willing to assist other creatives in having their hard effort recognized, and you alone are in charge of your own distribution.

<guide to including your creative content and work>

Spoiler: ‎

 

[2cwldys]

V1.0.1 of the Community Updater tool has now released, featuring:

- Server browser list that supports addon sync.
- If your server or content is delisted, allows ability to filter for other master servers for visibility.
- Works multiplatform for Linux users in WINE.
- ENTIRELY OPEN SOURCE!

(red) - out of date
(green) - up to date
(orange) - never downloaded, has custom content

All servers supporting this must be ran using g_AntiCheat 0 in order to bypass MBII launcher restrictions with custom third-party asset sync.
Closest to mod.io solutions in the meantime, using python, subject to the 2GB github limitations.