Dev Release

An increasing number of mods such as IC2, Forestry, ChickenBones's, and many other developers' mods have development releases, which are compiled but not obfuscated so they work when used in MCP. All it takes to make these dev releases is to put mcp/bin/minecraft/yourmod/* in a jar file. ComputerCraft has an API but I can't practically write any mod with a CC peripheral because I don't have a deobfuscated CC and can't use BON because Apple decided that I don't deserve a recent enough version of Java. I refuse to do any software development on windoze but I suppose I could deobfuscate CC on linux and transfer it to my macbook, but that's a headache. Could the developers please consider including a deobfuscated dev version with their releases to avoid forcing developers to have to deobfuscate the mod themselves?

All you need is the API. You can compile your mod and test it by using it with a normal instance of minecraft. That's how it was done prior to BON, and there were no deobfuscated releases then either. Dan would have to give the final word on this, but I very strongly suspect it will be a No. So strongly, in fact, that I'm going to lock this.

The response from Dan when I asked him a while ago was no. However, as of 1.6.2 Code Chicken Core can runtime deobfuscate mods into MCP names.