Profiles, launching, and completions - Oh My!

This release adds some cool new features that bring papa more in line with other prominent Northstar managers. The two big things, as mentioned above, are support for creating and switching between profiles. This allows you to have different sets of mods for different moods, or to set up things like Vanilla+.

To go along with profiles is the shiny new papa run command, which will attempt to launch Titanfall 2 with your current profile. I've tested this with native steam and it should work with flatpak steam too if that's what you're into. You may need to manually update your config file if you've used one of the v4.1.0 rc versions to specify your steam install type:

install_type.steam = "Native" # or "Flatpak"

If you still use the Origin/EA App version of Titanfall 2 directly, papa should still be able to launch it but won't try to set any launch arguments automatically, you'll have to do that yourself in the game's settings. Also, just buy the steam version when it goes on sale again.

The last big thing this release brings is hugely upgraded shell completions. To see how to set them up, check out papa complete --init [YOUR_SHELL]. They are powered by clap_complete and so support bash, elvish, fish, zsh, and even PowerShell. These new completions will dynamically show available options relative to your set up (i.e. which profiles you can select, what mods you can enable/disable, etc.) and will show a list of (currently exactly matched) mods available to install. As a fish user myself I found this to be a massive improvement to the overall UX.

As always feel free to open an issue if you run into any problems. The full changelog is below.

Happy modding!

v4.1.0

Bug Fixes

• Don't try to canonicalize path that might not exist
• Set install type when installing Northstar
• Use exact expected path when finding Northstar core mods
• Fix enabled_mods.json not always saving
• Fix remove command to work properly with packages

Dependencies

• Update dependencies
• Remove lazy_static dependency
• Update libthermite to v0.9.0

Features

• Write standard mod strings to exported mod lists
• Launch game through steam and origin
• Profiles (#26)
• Nortstar reset/uninstall command
• Improved/dynamic shell completions
• Allow using cached versions of northstar when installing
• Optionally install northstar core mods and DLL when creating a profile
• Improve list command output with no mods installed

Miscellaneous Tasks

• Update dependencies
• Add .rpm bundle
• Remove nsargs crate
• Update action versions
• Add nix flake for development
• Specify include in Cargo.toml (via cargo-diet)
• Make nix flake buildable
• Pedantic clippy
• Update release workflow