w3wilkes wrote:
> You should either remove it now or change the name so those of us that
> want v2 can have v2. I don't think overriding another persons pluggin
> should be acceptable @mherger.
I havent read the whole thread, so Ill apologize in advance if Ive
misunderstood something in this situation. This post is not directed
towards you in personal, its directed towards anyone that dont like
that a new developer tries to continue maintenance of an abandoned
plugin.
Overriding an unsupported plugin should definitely be allowed in my
opinion. If we didnt allow this we would get a plugin inflation every
time a developer stops maintaining a plugin and someone else wants to
take over. People that prefer to use an unsupported version will have to
manually download and install that and they would have to accept a more
complicated installation process IMHO.
I understand why afriend plans to pull his version from the main repo to
avoid the criticism on the forum but I think this is really unfortunate,
it would be a lot better to keep it in the main repo so people can
easily install the supported version (afriends one) if they are usin
LMS 7.9 or later. Ive never tested or officially supported any of my
plugins on a LMS version later than 7.8, if they work on later LMS
versions its just pure luck and a matter of time until something
breaks.
Id personally prefer if afriend keeps his plugin in the main repo to
make it easy to install for people that wants a supported version and if
he wants to make it easy for people to install my unsupported version
changing the plugin name to DynamicPlayList3 in repo will probably
probably allow that. Im not sure if he would also have to change the
plugin directory name to DynamicPlayList3 to make it work properly,
which would make it a little bit more work. However, in my personal
opinion he can just keep the name as it is and refer the people that
wants my unsupported version to manual installation (recommended) or
downgrading LMS to 7.8 (not recommended). If people wants to know how to
manually install an unsupported plugin they should ask someone else in
the community, the new developer should not have to spend time
instructing people how to install someone else plugin IMHO.
Having said all this, I think its sad that people criticize people
(like afriend) that spend time for free to try make functionality
survive that have been abandoned by previous developers (like me). We
should encourage people that try to ensure as much functionality as
possible survives when the original plugin developer has abandoned a
plugin. We should also keep in mind that all plugin developers offers
their spare time for free to do this for us. If we dont do our best to
encourage them in all possible ways we are soon going to end up without
any plugin developers and that will be an early step towards the death
of the LMS community.
Erland Isaksson ('My homepage' (http://erland.isaksson.info))
Developer of 'many plugins/applets'
(https://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.php/User_Erland.html)
*Starting with LMS 8.0 I no longer support my plugins/applets* ('see
here for more information'
(https://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?49483-Announce-New-versions-of-erlands-plugins&p=998836&viewfull=1#post998836)
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