Godot Version Manager

A command line tool to download and manage Godot versions per project

basic_usage.mp4

✨ Features

• download any release of Godot > 3.0 from the command line
• define a Godot version for your project and track it with git
• seamlessly download and run the correct Godot version accross projects and git commits
• set a system's default version of Godot, with desktop shortcut
• autocompletion
• interactive prompt
• colors 🎉

• linux 🐧
• windows WSL 🪟 (cannot create desktop shortcuts)
• windows PowerShell 🪟 (incoming)
• macos 🍎

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🛠️ Installation

Download the latest release and extract it.
Install gdvm by running the install script from the extracted directory:

cd gdvm
./install

Note

If you encounter a glibc error follow the install instructions for developers

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📝 Basic usage

Run gdvm -h for advanced usage

Set a Godot version to use for current working directory

gdvm download VERSION_NUMBER
gdvm use VERSION

gdvm supports autocompletion of all arguments including all possible versions.

Alternatively you can use the interactive mode:

gdvm download
gdvm use

If you'd like to use a release other than stable, such as rc1 or dev5, you can use the --release argument:

gdvm download VERSION_NUMBER --release RELEASE
gdvm use VERSION

Note

The local version is written to .godotversion in the current working directory. Track it with git ;)

Set a managed version as system's default

gdvm use --system-default VERSION

or for the interactive mode:

gdvm use --system-default

Both running godot in the terminal or opening Godot's desktop application will point to the new installed version.

Run Godot

• gdvm run runs the current working directory's project with project's version if it has been previously defined, otherwise asks to select the version to run.

• gdvm run VERSION to run a specific version

• gdvm run --system to run the system's default

Wildcards

gdvm supports wildcards to handle multiple versions at once. For example to remove all versions starting with 4.1:

gdvm remove "4.1*"

While the "" may not always be necessary, they're recommended to avoid clashing with bash wildcard. Alternatively it is also possible to escape it with \*. For example to self-contain all installed versions:

gdvm config --self-contain \*

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⌨️ Development

Set up the development environment

Important

python > 3.11 is required. If necessary, install it from your package manager as well as pip for Python 3.

Clone git repo

git clone https://github.com/gaheldev/godot-version-manager.git
cd godot-version-manager

Set up virtualenv (recommended)

We use virtualenv to create an environment with controlled python package versions.

pip install virtualenv
virtualenv venv
source venv/bin/activate

Make sure to run source venv/bin/activate before working on the project.
Run deactivate to deactivate the virtualenv.

Install gdvm on your system

make install

Git hooks

Warning

this will delete any pre-commit hook you already created

To automatically run tests before commits we use a pre-commit hook:

make hook

Warning

if a hook has been changed by you or someone else, you need to run make hook again

Tests

Tests are located in the tests/ folder of the project. All test files should be named 'test_*.py' or '*_test.py'.

Run make tests in the project's root directory to run all tests.

Releases

Releases are automatically built on github when a tag v*.*.* is pushed by one of the commands:

make patch-release
make minor-release
make major-release

Profiling

For a detailed profiling, use cProfile on main.py from the root directory, for example:

python -m cProfile main.py list > profiling.txt

For a basic profiling you can use the time utility:

time gdvm list