So I have minecraft forge installed on my game. My brother told me that you are supposed to delete the meta inf file in your minecraft.jar file before you move all of the forge files over into it. I however deleted the META INF after i moved the files over and before I exited win rar.
So my question is, will i experience any problems down the road because of when I deleted the file? My forge works still.
The meta-inf folder contains information about what is in the jar. If the information does not match, it can causes crashes, however the folder is not necessary so removing it is the simple solution.
The reason forge contains its own meta-inf is best explained by LexManos
Forge inclusing the Meta-inf folder actually REDUCES the issues users have by replacing the files that include the class checksums. In case the end user forgets to delete it.
The Meta-inf folder that is included in forge actually makes it no longer nessasary for forge to go into the server jar, just place minecraft_server.jar in the same folder and run the universal download like a jar and you're done.
To my understanding, this means that it is there to possibly resolve issues, but is not necessary. So as far as I know, no this will not cause any issues down the road.
So my question is, will i experience any problems down the road because of when I deleted the file? My forge works still.
Also what is the META INF for?
The meta-inf folder contains information about what is in the jar. If the information does not match, it can causes crashes, however the folder is not necessary so removing it is the simple solution.
The reason forge contains its own meta-inf is best explained by LexManos
To my understanding, this means that it is there to possibly resolve issues, but is not necessary. So as far as I know, no this will not cause any issues down the road.