Adding Forked Versions

[MisterMiggles]

Really liking this so far. I'm currently testing out two forks (Xogot and Summer) and would love to be able to include these into the GodotHub as other engines/versions I could open my projects with. I don't expect them to be updated by GodotHub automatically, but if there was a way to manually import them and then the user maintains it themselves, that'd be awesome.

Seems there's a list currently here: https://github.com/godotengine/godot/forks

But, again, I don't expect GodotHub to scan and import these automatically. Ideally, an option for the user to import one on their own accord (i.e., download the .app, .exe, .dmg, etc. and import into GodotHub).

[RykoTheDev]

right now what godothub currently does to detect versions is that there's two ways:

1. If you import a .zip file:
   It just looks at the file name. If the zip is called something like Godot_v4.3-stable_win64.exe.zip, it assumes it's Godot based on the name. It then unzips it and whatever .exe it finds inside, that's what it registers as Godot. It doesn't double-check, it trusts the filename. Altough unsafe if someone else is trying to import it into your godothub. this was the easiest way to do it.. and it shouldn't be any problem as long as you know what the zip file contains.

2. If you scan a folder for versions:
   This is smarter. For every .exe it finds, it actually runs it with --version to see what it outputs. If it outputs something like 4.7.1-stable , then it knows it's a real Godot executable. If the command fails or returns nothing, it's probably not Godot and gets skipped.

so it would take a bit to add other forks' support but if there's enough demand for this i will look into it

[MisterMiggles]

Testing on macOS 26.

I compressed their .app into .zip files, dragged and dropped onto GodotHub, and launched each one after import. First method worked great for Summer. For Xogot, I had to update to the latest build and then it was able to launch it without issue.

I also tried the second method, but I'm not sure if the version of the forked engines (not the Godot Engine version itself) is what's causing the disconnect (see screenshot below). That's my guess, at least.

Either way, the first method is more than enough for what I was trying out. Greatly appreciated!

[RykoTheDev]

hm.. interesting, Glad it worked out of the box