meta-launcher
By PrismLauncher
meta-polymc
Static files available at https://meta.polymc.org/v1 (by PolyMC)
| meta-launcher | meta-polymc | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | |
| 21 | 9 | |
| - | - | |
| 9.6 | 10.0 | |
| 4 days ago | 14 days ago | |
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The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
meta-launcher
Posts with mentions or reviews of meta-launcher.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-10-17.
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OVE-20221017-0001: PolyMC appears to be compromised
The metadata server URL is configurable in PolyMC's settings. https://meta.scrumplex.rocks/v1/ is a mirror ran by a person behind PlaceholderMC; serving files from https://github.com/PlaceholderMC/meta-polymc.
meta-polymc
Posts with mentions or reviews of meta-polymc.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-10-17.
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Should I be worried about "compromised" software?
No, it is instructed where to download files from by the manifest in https://meta.polymc.org/v1, which has historically been populated by this git repo: https://github.com/PolyMC/meta-polymc
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OVE-20221017-0001: PolyMC appears to be compromised
They do have access to the contents of the PolyMC metadata server. It serves from https://github.com/PolyMC/meta-polymc, which only they can push to at the moment. The metadata server serves links to executable Java files and native libraries, and supplementary files required for Minecraft and various modloaders. It is important to trust the people providing the metadata server. The metadata server URL is configurable in PolyMC's settings. https://meta.scrumplex.rocks/v1/ is a mirror ran by a person behind PlaceholderMC; serving files from https://github.com/PlaceholderMC/meta-polymc.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing meta-launcher and meta-polymc you can also consider the following projects:
PlaceholderMC - A custom launcher for Minecraft that allows you to easily manage multiple installations of Minecraft at once (Fork of MultiMC) [Moved to: https://github.com/PrismLauncher/PrismLauncher]
org.polymc.PolyMC
nixpkgs - Nix Packages collection & NixOS