I have this idea for a central repo souce of all the mods, it is pretty simple and should work like the Sublime Text 2 Package Control. You can look and read a lot more about it on their site here http://wbond.net/sublime_packages/package_control. It is Open Source btw.
All Mod Managers could use this infomation to list all mods, and download and install them with ease, heck it will even support different files for multriple platforms if you are modding something insane/serioius.
A example would be like this, here there only is one mod but there could be a lot of them - and you can support diffend repo's too, you could be hosted by FTLgame.com or github or anything!
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"mods": [
{
"name": "Example",
"description": "This is a Example mod, it does notthing.",
"picture": "http://example.com/thiscouldbeapicture.jpg",
"author": "Example",
"homepage": "http://example.com",
"last_modified": "2012-12-12 12:12:12",
"platforms": {
"*": [
{
"version": "1.0",
"url": "http://github.com/author/modsmods/ftlmod.ftl"
}
]
}
}
]
I think it would be wonderful for the enduser of the mods, they never have to think about finding the right file, and the right update, the Mod Manager and the repo JSON data will all help to do this for them.
Grognak's Mod Manager would be awesome with this IMO