Module ecosystem 

Ecosystem-schema: games, mod loaders, and install rules. The Thunderstore ecosystem schema: games, mod loaders, and install rules.

This mirrors Thunderstore’s upstream ecosystem schema — the same data that drives r2modman — rather than a bespoke normalized copy. Each game carries one or more profiles (r2modman[]) with a LoaderKind, recursive InstallRules that route a package’s files, and metadata (executables, store distributions). A top-level ModloaderPackage registry names every package that is a loader pack (and the subfolder of it that unpacks to the root), so the engine never hard-codes per-game loader facts.

The canonical source is the Thunderstore ecosystem schema, published as JSON at DEFAULT_ECOSYSTEM_URL. A compressed snapshot is embedded at compile time as a fallback (Ecosystem::bundled); Ecosystem::fetch_latest refreshes it from the network. Parsing is intentionally defensive (#[serde(default)], unknown loaders/tracking methods fall back to Other) because this is an external, evolving contract.

Structs

Distribution

A store distribution: which platform lists the game and under what id.

Ecosystem

A parsed ecosystem schema: the known games plus the mod-loader package registry.

GameDef

A single game’s definition.

GameProfile

A per-manager profile for a game: its loader, install rules, and metadata.

InstallRule

A single, possibly nested, routing rule for a regular mod’s files.

Meta

Display metadata (name and icon) attached to a game or profile.

ModloaderPackage

A package that is itself a mod-loader pack.

Enums

InstanceType

Whether a GameProfile targets the game itself or a dedicated server.

LoaderKind

The mod-loader family. Unknown values deserialize to LoaderKind::Other.

TrackingMethod

How files matched by an InstallRule are placed and tracked under its route.

Constants

DEFAULT_ECOSYSTEM_URL

The default URL used by Ecosystem::fetch_latest to refresh the snapshot.