There is no nice solution for this problem, IMHO.

Alternatives would be:

- Keep a version in main repo as is. Offer new version from private repository 
only
- Change skin name to Aeon Nox 3 and push it as "separate skin" leaving 
existing one as is
- Bump GUI requirements and force pre-Frodo XBMC builds only
 
Not very nice, right?

I would respect skin author's decision if he decides to require re-setting of 
the skin. Those are not XBMC settings but skin specific ones after all. 

He will probably need to deal with lots of users asking "what happened?" in 
forum and if he decided to go through that than it is probably because update 
is worth while and there was not other sane way to do it.  

Pedja

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From: Martijn Kaijser <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [Xbmc-addons] [GIT PULL] Aeon Nox 3.0.0
Date: 22. května 2012 7:36:03 GMT+02:00
To: Philipp Temminghoff <[email protected]>
Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>


So this means that any skin that has done some code and feature improvement all 
in the benifit of the user will have to wait till Frodo is released? Some where 
next year perhaps.

I do understand the point of view that it can be confusing that all of a sudden 
some customization has been reset. But be honesed, a user that installs a skin 
other than the default one and then tweaks it will usually also love new shiny 
features. Getting things back how you wanted perhaps takes an hour with the new 
layout for regular users.

If you don't want a user to suddenly have something change the auto update 
should be turned off by default and a huge warning sign if they recieve an 
update 'this update might screw up your tweaks'.

If you do deside to not allow 3.0 to be added it would discourage the skinners 
to push xbmc skinning to the limits cause they can only update once a year.
Getting current one marked broken and add a new skin id doesn't sound like a 
good idea either. Then you could allow modded versions as well.

Just my humble point of view.

Perhaps other skinners would like to give their thoughs?

Regards,
Martijn



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