godot-version-manager

Download, install and manage any version of Godot Engine from a simple app.

Installation

Windows:

Unzip and double-click. Extraction of downloaded versions requires powershell

Linux:

Unzip and double-click. Extraction of downloaded versions requires unzip which, if not installed, should be available in your distro repository

OSX:

• Should auto extract after download
• You need to run sudo xattr -r -d com.apple.quarantine path/to/Godot Version Manager.app since unsigned binaries get marked as untrusted otherwise. Feel free to build the project yourself if you don't trust the prebuilt binaries
• Double click Godot Version Manager.app

Features

• Automatically download and install any version of Godot from a drop-drown menu. (requires powershell for extraction)
• Show or hide alpha, beta, rc versions from download drop-down.
• Add your own binaries anywhere on your filesystem.
• Colorful icons to easily distinguish stable, rc, beta, alpha and master builds.
• Right click to remove entry entry from the list

F.A.Q

Q: Where are the downloaded binaries saved to?

A: They are saved to user://versions which varies depending on your platform. On windows it's %appdata%/Godot/app_serdata/Godot Version Manager/versions

Q: How is this different from Hourglass or Godot Manager?

A: Hourglass is a much more mature and featureful project which also does project management. Maybe the only advantage GVM has is that it also downloads news snippets from the official website :) Godot Manager seems to be a pretty mature and featureful alternative too.

Q: Why do you scrape godotengine.org/news instead or fetching the RSS feed?

A: The rss doesn't have links to thumbnails or excerpts, only the full text. Also the rss feed contains every entry in the history of Godot News. It's currently a 17MB download.

TODO

• Linux support
• OSX support
• Complete refactor
• Better (i.e some at all) error handling
• Autorefresh, use HEAD for faster scraping, ignore folders without updates.
• Inform about available updates for installed versions
• Inform about available updates for Godot Version Manager
• Show news snippets from godotengine.com/news?

LICENSE

MIT Licensed (see LICENSE.md) Copyright ©️2022 Lisandro Lorea

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