Historically we used Forge's SimpleChannel methods (and
PacketDistributor) to send the packets to the client. However, we don't
need to do that - it is sufficient to convert it to a vanilla packet,
and send the packet ourselves.
Given we need to do this on Fabric, it makes sense to do this on Forge
as well. This allows us to unify (and thus simplify) a lot of how packet
sending works.
At the same time, we also remove the handling of speaker audio during
decoding. We originally did this to avoid the additional copy of audio
data. However, this doesn't work on 1.20.4 (as packets aren't
encoded/decoded on singleplayer), so it makes sense to do this
Correctly(TM).
This also allows us to get rid of ClientNetworkContext.get(). We do
still need to service load this class (as Forge's networking isn't split
up in the same way Fabric's is), but we'll be able to drop that in
1.20.4.
Finally, we move the record playing code from ClientNetworkContext to
ClientPlatformHelper. This means the network context no longer needs to
be platform-specific!
This adds SPDX license headers to all source code files, following the
REUSE[1] specification. This does not include any asset files (such as
generated JSON files, or textures). While REUSE does support doing so
with ".license" files, for now we define these licences using the
.reuse/dep5 file.
[1]: https://reuse.software/
After several weeks of carefully arranging ribbons, we pull the string
and end up with, ... a bit of a messy bow. There were still some things
I'd missed.
- Split the mod into a common (vanilla-only) project and Forge-specific
project. This gives us room to add Fabric support later on.
- Split the project into main/client source sets. This is not currently
statically checked: we'll do that soon.
- Rename block/item/tile entities to use suffixes rather than prefixes.
Jonathan Coates