A question about patches and Mods
 

How do you handle the installation of a patch on the modded game? Should you unload all the mods first then patch? Guess there's the question of if the mod would be compatible with the patch.

I'm just asking for when 1.2 rolls out.

Thanks!

Most certainly remove all mods before patching. If you manage to patch a modded game then it'll sure break a bunch of mods.
So use JSGME! ;)

And then, after the patch, some mods might have to be reworked if the original game files have been updated by the patch.