... seems down again. This time it got worse as it also kinda successfully downloaded nothing while erasing my lokal repo. This tool is really the best for managing mods, similar to CKAN, which i even support on patreon :-D. Trakos, do you have a patreon account? So please take my money and fix this :-D

Hey, first of all many thanx for CFAN. I've been using CKAN ever since it came out, so I plan on using CFAN. But as of recent days each time I refresh repositories (I guess ?) I get such error: "Couldn't download http://cfan.trakos.pl/repo/repository_v2.tar.gz.
Thank you in advance

Holy smokes! I started the CKAN project, and I've been away from development for a little bit and only just discovered this! It makes me immensely happy to see a CFAN fork. :D :D :D

Indeed, when I was looking at mod management for Factorio, I was thinking "If only there was something like CKAN for ...

... provide abit of an example. If anyone here has ever played Kerbal Space Program you may know of it but they have a third party mod manager called "Ckan" which is similar to what it looks like your trying to attempt. I would just reccomend taking a look at it for ideas and such.

I've mentioned it ...

... provide abit of an example. If anyone here has ever played Kerbal Space Program you may know of it but they have a third party mod manager called "Ckan" which is similar to what it looks like your trying to attempt. I would just reccomend taking a look at it for ideas and such.
* sorry for not doing ...

Holy smokes! I started the CKAN project, and I've been away from development for a little bit and only just discovered this! It makes me immensely happy to see a CFAN fork.

... by either removing 5dim's Mod - Ores or installling Bob's Ores and required dependencies.
Sorry for that. I've fixed it today in version 0.0.5. CKAN was not managing auto-detected mods, basically it marked them as installed but you couldn't remove or update them through CKAN. Now I do the same ...

... even partially done here, that would allow mod authors freedom, while also allowing the game to officially support it as well -- CFAN, forked from CKAN.

The disadvantages here are the usual ones -- you'd have to modify the code, which would require you to learn the existing code, etc. There is also ...

I've been hoping someone would eventually fork CKAN for Factorio!

KSP has its own mod portal but CKAN still exists. This is probably going to be more powerful than anything that gets built into the game. I'm surprised i took this long for someone to do this Rock on.

Nice. What CKAN features that are KSP specific made it over? I'm thinking stuff like:
* Automatic Factorio version determination
* Auto detection of manually installed mods

Both of those works. Factorio version is determined by checking info.json in base directory. Mods are auto detected, and if ...

Nice. What CKAN features that are KSP specific made it over? I'm thinking stuff like:
* Automatic Factorio version determination
* Auto detection of manually installed mods

Hello!

I made CFAN, a fork of CKAN for factorio.

http://cfan.trakos.pl/logo.png

If you've never heard of CKAN, it is a mod manager for Kerbal Space Program. It is written in C# (runs fine on Mono on both Mac OS and linux).
Quick introduction to CKAN can be seen here: https://youtu.be/_wsBK1ovKtA ...

... Keeping my mods updated has turned into quite a bit of effort, even though it hasn't quite reached Kerbal-Space-Program-Levels (thank GOD for CKAN) it's still half an hour every couple of days (or weeks)...

Yeah instead of silver and gold it should be coal, iron plate and copper plate :P

... that are kept updated and that I still can decide which mods to enable in game independently. Keeping my mods updated has turned into quite a bit of effort, even though it hasn't quite reached Kerbal-Space-Program-Levels (thank GOD for CKAN) it's still half an hour every couple of days (or weeks)...

I think you should (if you haven't yet) check how the KerbalSpaceProgram launcher does it - I'm talking about CKAN of course !

I just love the way it shows and incorporates the dependencies :)

http://i.imgur.com/SN102Oa.png

I also prefer their forum system more than ours - the links open in a ...

... things starts spreading out, I fear that it may get confusing, like what happened to KSP. Hopefully, someone will create an opensource tool like CKAN+KerbalStuff that can be used by other games as well. There's things like SteamWorkshop, but that's only for Steam games. There's also Curse, but ...

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What about having the mod authors (or whoever wants to, really) explicitly submit their info.json to something like KSP's CKAN ?

Seems like trying to format a machine-readable entry on a forum, and then creating something else to go dig the information out again to put in a ...

What about having the mod authors (or whoever wants to, really) explicitly submit their info.json to something like KSP's CKAN ?

Seems like trying to format a machine-readable entry on a forum, and then creating something else to go dig the information out again to put in a database is a lot of ...

... like http://www.wowace.com/addons/ (world of warcraft) would be awesome for factorio.

Maybe you could contact Curse and see if they like Factorio?

Or CKAN: ( http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/100067-The-Comprehensive-Kerbal-Archive-Network-%28CKAN%29-Package-Manager-v1-6-16-13-May-2015 )