BAP and Bapman

Ballistica mods packager library

BAP Manager - GUI front-end for BAP

What is it?

For user: Easy way to download new mods and install updates

For developers: Easy way to distribute mods and share updates

Build

1. Clone or download this repository
2. Run ./configure.py sync; it will clone Ballistica repository and something to prepare build
3. Run ./configure.py build and wait for debug build finish. Profit!

How to make package? How to install it?

BAP provides a simple API for packaging control. Here are some useful methods.

bapack.install("<path_to_package>") - install package from file (e.g. test.bap)

bapack.uninstall("<pkg_name>") - uninstall package <pkg_name>

bapack.genpkg("<path_to_package_dir>") - make package from directory

A word about package directory format. It will just copyed in Ballistica user mods directory, all package files will saved to database. BAP want to get package information - in root package directory must be pkginfo.py script. Example:

import datetime
pkginfo = PkgInfo(
    name="test",
    version=Version.from_string(f'0.1.5-dev+{datetime.datetime.now().timestamp()}'),
    desc="test package",
    author=Person.from_string('Test Person <testperson@example.com>'),
    maintainer=Person.from_string('Test Person <testperson@example.com>'))
# This script must define pkginfo variable - instance of PkgInfo class

Repositories

File named repolist lives in BAP repository directory i.e. <User mods folder>/.baprepos/repolist

Example of repolist file

# bap repositories list
#
# <name> <url_repo_database> <url_packages_root>
# My local repository. I use it for testing my packages
localrepo http://localhost:8000/repo.db http://localhost:8000

# My global repository. It contains release builds.
supermodder https://example.com/supermodder/baprepo/repo.db https://example.com/supermodder/baprepo/packages