Homebrew [Question] Would this be helpful?

[Somebody Whoisbored]

I had the idea of a helper for installs of A9LH and others with a downloader tool. The user would define their region, version, and type of 3ds, then an shareable xml file would use that information to download, rename, and place files into the SD card. It would have the ability to have "if" statements, so an xml author could say download these files if version is from 2.1.0 to 9.2.0. Would this be something I should work on?

 

[proflayton123]

I had the idea of a helper for installs of A9LH and others with a downloader tool. The user would define their region, version, and type of 3ds, then an shareable xml file would use that information to download, rename, and place files into the SD card. It would have the ability to have "if" statements, so an xml author could say download these files if version is from 2.1.0 to 9.2.0. Would this be something I should work on?

It's an interesting concept. You should have a go, it could get somewhere!

 

[Somebody Whoisbored]

I will get started soon, but my computer thought it would be a great time to corrupt the BCD data again. Think I'll get it fixed in 15 min.

 

[Boured]

That actually sounds kind of cool, if you could make it it would help a lot of people :3

 

[Somebody Whoisbored]

My computer booted! Yayyyyyyy
Well I'll start development and have an update when I get progress done.

 

[Ev1lbl0w]

Good luck for you!

I also posted a long time ago the same exact idea you had. I got a HATE wave for some reason, everybody saying why would I do that, it's useless and such. Don't let those kind of people let you down.

If you make your project open source, I think I can contribute xD

 

[Somebody Whoisbored]

Good luck for you!

I also posted a long time ago the same exact idea you had. I got a HATE wave for some reason, everybody saying why would I do that, it's useless and such. Don't let those kind of people let you down.

If you make your project open source, I think I can contribute xD

Sorry to hear that, not sure why that would get hate. I will probably develop this closed source and release a github repo with the first build. So stay tuned!

 

[metroid maniac]

I'm getting Modmii flashbacks.

 

[xile6]

probably would be.
They use to have downloaders like this for the wii.
You can input what firmware and system you have. Then it would fetch and download the needed files and put them in the needed folders on the sd card.
You do the steps then it downloads the next files for the next step.

The only problem i see is that the guides change from time to time so you would have to keep your update as theres.

 

[Somebody Whoisbored]

probably would be.
They use to have downloaders like this for the wii.
You can input what firmware and system you have. Then it would fetch and download the needed files and put them in the needed folders on the sd card.
You do the steps then it downloads the next files for the next step.

The only problem i see is that the guides change from time to time so you would have to keep your update as theres.

My tool would only be a "interpreter" of sorts. The updating of links and such would be pushed onto the creators of the xml. I plan to add version control as well to deal with this.

 

[Somebody Whoisbored]

Also this will be coded in Java as that is what I am most familiar with.
*insert dramatic effect here*

 

[Polarise]

Also this will be coded in Java as that is what I am most familiar with.
*insert dramatic effect here*

Make sure you find a way that the files that the application gets is from the latest releases on github, or a vesion select like how some versions of SafeA9LHInstaller causes bricks.

 

[Somebody Whoisbored]

Make sure you find a way that the files that the application gets is from the latest releases on github, or a vesion select like how some versions of SafeA9LHInstaller causes bricks.

That is up to the developers of xml's to do, although I might find a way for the xml to check if updates are available.

 

[Ev1lbl0w]

You can simply put in the XML's metadata the commit of Plailect's guide and then the program checks online if there is a newer commit. If yes, it warns the users that there is a new version of the guide and if they don't want to wait until the XML is updated, then they proceed.

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Also this will be coded in Java as that is what I am most familiar with.

I love you. Java is love, Java is life.

 

[Somebody Whoisbored]

You can simply put in the XML's metadata the commit of Plailect's guide and then the program checks online if there is a newer commit. If yes, it warns the users that there is a new version of the guide and if they don't want to wait until the XML is updated, then they proceed.

I was thinking that the xml file would simply have a pointer to the latest version, and it would just compare them to see if it's new. I'd like this to be open to more than just Plailect's guide.

 

[Quantumcat]

I'm actually working on this right now. I submitted a pull request to Plailect's guide that placed all the files in the "what you need" sections in an xml file and used JavaScript to recreate the dot points on the pages. It got rejected though so I am looking at just parsing the .md pages from the repository for the links.

So don't bother if you haven't started. I plan to upload a preliminary version to a repository this afternoon :-)

 

[Somebody Whoisbored]

I'm actually working on this right now. I submitted a pull request to Plailect's guide that placed all the files in the "what you need" sections in an xml file and used JavaScript to recreate the dot points on the pages. It got rejected though so I am looking at just parsing the .md pages from the repository for the links.

So don't bother if you haven't started. I plan to upload a preliminary version to a repository this afternoon :-)

Do you think my idea would work? It's just an interpreter in a separate tool.

 

[Somebody Whoisbored]

I have a working GUI, just need to do the interpreter and connect it to the backend. A day or two maybe?

 

[Ev1lbl0w]

If you wish I can help design the XML files.

 

[Somebody Whoisbored]

If you wish I can help design the XML files.

I've pretty much sorted the XML files. Working on displaying download info and adding zip and 7zip support. Should I submit my test XML as a way of getting feedback?