mc-launcher-rs

A simple minecraft launcher, in Rust

Goal

The goal of this project is for me to learn a little bit of Rust, and experiment with the ecosystem.
The current scope of the project is just downloading minecraft and launching it.

Maybe modloader after all is stable-ish

Stack

// Todo, link

Usage	Choice
UI	egui
Async	tokio
HTTP	reqwest
JSON	serde
Hashing	sha1
Archives	zip
Folders	directories
Errors	anyhow
Logs	tracing

Roadmap

Do the download logic, then the UI.

Download:
[x] Read the manifest [x] Manifest -> JSON [] Interpret the data
[] Download from the JSON -> HTTP/Tokio
[] Go from sequential to parallel

Structure

core -> all the launcher stuff, version manifest, JSON, download, hashes, launch args... cli -> a small wrapper that calls the core and display text gui -> another small wrapper that calls the core and displays it with egui

Links

https://piston-meta.mojang.com/mc/game/version_manifest_v2.json
This one is the main manifest