godot-version-manager

Download, install and manage any version of Godot Engine from a simple app.

Installation

Windows:

Unzip and double-click. (On Windows XP please make sure Powershell is installed)

Linux:

Unzip and double-click. Extraction of downloaded versions requires unzip which, if not installed, should be available in your distro repository

OSX:

• Should auto extract after download
• You need to run sudo xattr -r -d com.apple.quarantine path/to/Godot Version Manager.app since unsigned binaries get marked as untrusted otherwise. Feel free to build the project yourself if you don't trust the prebuilt binaries
• Double click Godot Version Manager.app

Features

• Automatically download and install any version of Godot from a drop-drown menu. (requires powershell for extraction)
• Show or hide alpha, beta, rc and dev versions from download drop-down.
• Add your own binaries anywhere on your filesystem.
• Colorful icons to easily distinguish stable, rc, beta, alpha and master builds.
• Right click to remove any entry from the list
• Drag and drop to reorder enties
• Drag and drop a project.godot file or Godot project folder to add a project and launch it with a specific version
• News feed from godotengine.org./news

F.A.Q

Q: Where are the downloaded binaries saved to?

A: They are saved to user://versions which varies depending on your platform. On windows it's %appdata%/Godot/app_serdata/Godot Version Manager/versions

Q: How is this different from Hourglass or Godot Manager?

A: Hourglass is a much more mature and featureful project which also does project management. Maybe the only advantage GVM has is that it also downloads news snippets from the official website :) Godot Manager seems to be a pretty mature and featureful alternative too. A new (Aug 2023) alternative is Godots. GodotEnv and godot-version-manager are CLI-only alternatives.

Q: Why do you scrape godotengine.org/news instead or fetching the RSS feed?

A: When the feature was added the only alternative was a full feed with every piece of news, with no ability to only fetch the most recent ones. The godot-website team kindly added a json version of the news that fully fits the needs of this app. This is pending implementation #29

LICENSE

MIT Licensed (see LICENSE.md) Copyright ©️2022 Lisandro Lorea and contributors

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