Index Specification

[lazoolimc]

The goal here is to create a data specification to be used in an index for modded assets. This issue serves for discussion of the specifics.

Initially, I have some questions that I think might help shape things.

• How should versioning work? Mods rarely conform to semver, so I'm not positive that automated version comparison is possible. I'm also not sure that needs to be addressed. One option: adding a "revision" field somewhere with a sequential counter for integral comparison.
• How should authors and contributors be modeled? If at all?
• How can we/should we support multiple artifacts for a given release? (e.g. -deobf.jar, -api.jar).
• What sorts of data would we need to accommodate to support:
  • Mods
  • Texturepacks
  • Datapacks
  • Resource packs
• Do we need to support other sorts of objects in the index?
• How do we effectively support multiple modloaders/APIs? Minimally, it should be possible to index Forge and Fabric mods.

[stairman06]

Sub-projects are definitely needed for organization.