John,
I applaud your efforts, and agree with everything you say! As a
non-programmer, it's difficult at best to try and merge in diffs by hand. I
agree that if a theme (or macro, or whatever) is going to be compatible with
the latest version, to upload a new complete version, not a diff.
Thanks for your efforts, the themes page does look a lot more useful!
-Rick
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 9:52 AM, John Goerzen <jgoer...@complete.org> wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> I recently went to find a theme for my new MoinMoin install, running
> 1.8.x. I got terribly frustrated because so many of the themes on
> moinmo.in/ThemeMarket are so old that they haven't worked with the
> stable MoinMoin release for about 2-3 years now.
>
> Another frustration is that there are a ton of themes that maybe would
> work with the current release, but only if they are patched to do so.
> These patches are presented in various ways, from diffs to "edit the
> file here" instructions. Why are people not just uploading new
> versions? This is incredibly unfriendly. Can't we get "click and
> install" like other web apps have?
>
> After some discussion on #moin, I reorganized ThemeMarket to at least
> indicate compatible versions, so people running the current MoinMoin
> releases can find themes that work.
>
> Since then, at least one other person has edited that page to list a
> 1.6.x theme as "compatible with 1.8.x" because there is a patch on a
> discussion page 2 links down that makes it work. That despite the
> fact that the main page for that theme says it only works with 1.6.x.
> To me, it should only be listed as compatible with 1.8.x if the
> tar/zip file you download works out of the box.
>
> Making people jump through tons of hoops to make it work on the
> current release is not at all friendly.
>
> Comments? Should I revert that change?
>
> -- John
>
>
>
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