[1.20.6] Enable Gradle module metadata

[embeddedt]

This is a backport of #959 to 1.20.6, which will enable MDG to be used with this version.

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• Publish PR to GitHub Packages

Last commit published: 39be43a909c429975c4783e822715d26751eb9b3.

PR Publishing

The artifacts published by this PR:

• 📦 net.neoforged:neoforge:20.6.125-pr-1781-1.20.6-gradle-metadata
• 📦 net.neoforged:testframework:20.6.125-pr-1781-1.20.6-gradle-metadata

Repository Declaration

In order to use the artifacts published by the PR, add the following repository to your buildscript:

repositories {
    maven {
        name 'Maven for PR #1781' // https://github.com/neoforged/NeoForge/pull/1781
        url 'https://prmaven.neoforged.net/NeoForge/pr1781'
        content {
            includeModule('net.neoforged', 'neoforge')
            includeModule('net.neoforged', 'testframework')
        }
    }
}

MDK installation

In order to setup a MDK using the latest PR version, run the following commands in a terminal.
The script works on both *nix and Windows as long as you have the JDK bin folder on the path.
The script will clone the MDK in a folder named NeoForge-pr1781.
On Powershell you will need to remove the -L flag from the curl invocation.

mkdir NeoForge-pr1781
cd NeoForge-pr1781
curl -L https://prmaven.neoforged.net/NeoForge/pr1781/net/neoforged/neoforge/20.6.125-pr-1781-1.20.6-gradle-metadata/mdk-pr1781.zip -o mdk.zip
jar xf mdk.zip
rm mdk.zip || del mdk.zip

To test a production environment, you can download the installer from here.

[neoforged-releases]

🚀 This PR has been released as NeoForge version 20.6.122.