Well, I'm going to be completely honest with you slowpoke, and everyone else on here. This S*it is free. It is awesome what you do, I can't do it, and I love playing it. When I found it, I had only played tekkit a little, and hexxit came out, and I was blown away, but it was buggy and crashed all the time, and took forever to even launch the launcher, let alone the pack. Plus, I was depending on a friend of mine to admin the server, so when things went bad, they stayed bad for a while.
Then, I found Direwolf20's let's plays and started watching the Mindcrack FTB vids. I found the launcher and installed it, and it was awesome. Over 100 mods and it loaded in less than 5 mins!! Oh yeah, I don't know which was first, Ampz or Voltz, but at least Ampz halfway worked half the time, until it didn't, then, well it didn't ever again.....but I digress.
So, on to the truth. This is amateur hour. DW20, bless his heart, said like 20 months ago "the new launcher should be out very soon". Now maybe he didn't have permission to say that, maybe he was under the impression that what he was saying was true, but still, he said it. Obviously it has become apparent that this is not the case, but yet, there has been no redaction or explanation until now from either him or the FTB team. But, it is free, so I'm not complaining, just saying, as I heard you, Slowpoke, say to Soryen (sp?) "When you commit to a project...." you get the point.
Now, to speak to some of the comments above, I totally agree with the need for structure, but I also see the difficulty of such things when you're dealing with donated time. This is why, you need to focus on important things, and small steps, toss the junk. You want some proof that this hasn't sunk in with you yet Slow? You mentioned that you wanted to ad the ability for people to customize the skin. Really, dude, c'mon. Who care's what your launcher looks like. Look at Mojang's launcher for Christ's sake, focus on making the thing work!! If someone wants to work on that, great, let them, but make it clear that you don't want them doing so while you are trying to get the thing out to people, because any time you spend dealing with that, is time taken away from the important task people really care about, and that's getting the thing out the door!!!
Honestly though, I am kind of glad you piddled around and lost focus, because I lost interest in the 1.5.2 mods when I started seeing the stuff Dire was doing, so I learned how to make my own private packs with first the vanilla launcher, and now ATLauncher (who's functionality you seem to be describing in your own plans) Because they have Thermal Expansion 3 now. When I saw that, I was like, "that's it, it's time to move on." I now have my own server, and have crashed and broken the thing and lost and had to start over several worlds, but at least now i am not dependent on FTB, ATL, Technic, or my buddy to get around to fixing things, I am learning to do it on my own, which is what I suggest everyone else do as well, no offense, but it's a shark eat shark world, and the slowpokes get left behind.
