Hello Sumale.nin and everyone else in this thread,
I do not usually look through posts that are not in english but this one caught my eye and after going through allot of google translations it seems like you and I are going down the same road.
I have found that some mods only work with other mods already installed (mine included) and going through all the postings to get all the bugs worked out is a pain sometimes, your idea of making packages that would (I am assuming) install all mods in the package in one swipe. Nice idea...
I have been in love with SMF forums way of doing mods that does not include copy/pasting. I am not sure how they go about it but for the last 7 months or so, I have been playing with the idea for 4images to do the same thing. When (sorry, no ETA) my beta plug-in is ready for testing it will become the hardest thing I have ever tried to create.
In my free time I have been building a plug-in that will work along the same lines as SMF's way of adding mods. (see attached jpgs)
The automods would be in the form of a zip file containing everything needed for the mod and do everything for the end user.
So far, I have been able to install just fine, still working out allot of bugs,ideas that have cropped up and still a long road from completing it enough to put in the hands of everyone but this is kinda my thoughts on how it should be done and I was wondering what your thought were?
My main concern is if 4images comes out with a version with this already built in and all that work wasted
but I have learned allot about PHP programming through all of this and am still learning everyday.
The mod file that does all this is a standard text file that my script reads to know what to do to make the modifications but then I got to thinking that it should be an XML file, so I have backtracked so I can understand XML better and it looks like the better way to go... so another step backwards to reprogram the plug-in so I can start moving forward again...
but anyway, I just wanted to say nice going if you are able to do any of this that you are doing and I hope things work out for both of us and if there is anything you want to bounce off me feel free to PM my anytime, I do not mind