CatVision v3.0

yes, this is the third rewrite

Why rewrite again??

I didn’t like the project structure (seperate branch per minecraft version, hard to maintain, every version has to be managed independently, hard to scale) and I wanted compatibility for 1.16.5 up to the latest version and all inbetween with support for fabric, forge and neoforge.

The Solution: Stonecutter

Stonecutter is a gradle plugin that lets you maintain a single codebase for a multi-version and multi-loader project. You just annotate your code with version and loader conditions, and at compile time, stonecutter just “preprocesses” the annotated code.

On a slight side note to preprocessing (if you’re interested): Preprocessing is the act of temporarily changing the source code (the human readable code that you write, NOT the machine code) before compilation. This is done by the preprocessor, a special program written for this one purpose. It is usually the first step in a program’s compilation (example: the C preprocessor, with instructions like #include, #define and more)

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Current progress

Currently, I’ve got the template up and running with the 1.16.5-fabric version of the mod already functional. I’ve also set up the GitHub repo and the modrinth and curseforge projects.