Just install libcod and add everything to a mysql database.
Overkill? yes. Working? yes.
Or just go low-tech and manually read a cfg file with the fileoperations available.
Also,
is not true.And we all know that, when you modify a mod in a pure server, you need to change your fs_game, or the players who have downloaded the previous mod will have conflicts.
I run a pure server, changed my clientfiles over 20 times in the last few months and made at least 500x modifications to the script (script is serverside)