1y ago

Introducing Godots: Ultimate go-to hub for managing your Godot versions and projects!

Nice app I saw shared

Source: https://github.com/MakovWait/godots

Download Links (Win, Macos, Linux): https://github.com/MakovWait/godots/releases/tag/v1.0.stable

25 comments

oooooh, that's really nice

That someone felt the need to make such a tool is a seriously bad sign about version compatibility in Godot.
- Godot 4 is a major overhaul of the engine, it's not meant to be compatible with 3.x projects. Godot 4 is stable and won't change any time soon.
  
  Godot 3.x and 4.x are major release versions that break API compatibility. It is very unlikely that you are developing a game for both versions the same time, so no need for a tool to switch easily between them.
  I am not talking about general stability, but API stability. Normally you want a game project to work with any version of the Godot 4.x release cycle.
- How so?
  
  You don't need such a tool to manage version if the engine has a stable api on major versions. And you certainly don't want to jiggle with multiple versions when developing a game, or be stuck on a specific minor version because the engine broke API compatibility outside of major versions.
- if your game is in production you risk introducing bugs with every update, but you will probably want the latest version of the engine for your new game
  
  It really depends. If your game is released to the public in like early access or such then not upgrading might be ideal.
- I’ve been using one of the other version managers for godot for a little over a year, no need to be so dramatic
- It's not. Most game engine launchers have this versioning. It's very understandable. You don't want to open a project with 5.2 of unreal if it's in 5.1 and the rest of your team is on 5.1. Your team won't be able to load assets you've committed. Same thing is useful for Godot. You want to keep your engine versions synced with the team and minor versions simply just mean there shouldn't be a painful upgrade. With unreal sometimes even minor versions have large API charges. In that regard Godot is very stable.
  
  So your only argument is: it's bad on Unreal as well?
  One of the reasons why there is so much never updated shovelware in the gaming market is because many game engines do not follow software industry best practice of having a stable user-space API for minor versions.

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