HigherPower - Back to It

The Forge team decided to move to Gradle for code management. Therefore, every modder is forced to use that system, whether they like it or not. Until today, I could never get it to work - there was always some setup error or Eclipse couldn't find the files necessary to run the project. Somehow, everything lined up just right and Gradle built everything smoothly today.

Of course, like every Forge update, the update to Minecraft 1.7.2 broke everything. Literally all of my mod files have some sort of error in them. HigherPower is nowhere close to compiling, and a huge amount of its dependencies in Forge for 1.6.x are no longer extant or have changed names. (IconRegister, I'm looking at you.) Instead of the old way of doing packets, through the Forge networking infrastructure, it's integrated with Minecraft's Netty streams. That might actually make creating advanced GUIs less painful, but we shall see.

Message to Forge team: This is totally unacceptable. I understand you need to get compatibility with the new Minecraft versions, but you don't need to rename everything. Seriously, just a one-character change you made, probably with one keystroke, is going to require me to go through uncountable files to deal with. I had to go search the Internet and ask for help on IRC to figure out that the Configuration class moved namespaces. Your product, even though you don't get paid for it, is in use by hundreds if not thousands of developers around the world. Any minor inconvenience you cause is multiplied by that.

I know what I'll be doing the next few weeks. Isn't forced refactoring fun?