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Quote from secutanudu

This may be something simple that I am missing, but how do I get the JWU to do anything? I am running 2.2.

The handled addons screen is blank, everything is listed under unhandled. I see no options to scan for addons or to update addons, nor do I see a place to enter a curse user ID or password.

Maybee read the Readme.txt :)

/Rolf

Thanks for the new version with user login support!

I'm kind of sadened by the way that Curse/Wowace has been making things terribly hard for end-users (and that means addon updaters too) the past couple of months.

When people talk about missing features in JWowupdater and how annoying it is that you have to manually add things I think it's important to remember why things changed this way - it's not rolfba's fault for sure.

do you imagine that it would be an idea to have a wiki page somewhere for JWU users to share the excreable burden of gathering hundreds of URLS for links that will break several times this week alone ?

or at least a couple of example 3.0 updates and their JWU URL's in a forum/jwow update somewhere ?

Quote from toliman

do you imagine that it would be an idea to have a wiki page somewhere for JWU users to share the excreable burden of gathering hundreds of URLS for links that will break several times this week alone ?

or at least a couple of example 3.0 updates and their JWU URL's in a forum/jwow update somewhere ?

I must say i dont see the big problem with the copy & pasting of urls. It took me around 20min to find urls for all my addons, just by looking at the unhandled page, searching on wowace / curse, and adding them.

So i dont see the big problem here. But if you want to start a wiki, by all means do so :)

/Rolf

Wowinterface has changed their site to require login to view addon details pages temporarily. This seems to have broken the ability to update from there with jwow. It also only shows the addon ID as the name for an addon on the handled tab using wowinterface as the download site.

I also tested delete before updating with ACP from wowace and still the textfile I placed in there to test it remained.

Quote from Starfury

Wowinterface has changed their site to require login to view addon details pages temporarily. This seems to have broken the ability to update from there with jwow.

I also tested delete before updating with ACP from wowace and still the textfile I placed in there to test it remained.

Im not sure why it wouldnt delete it, i tested with a random text file in Minimalist folder, and its gone after an update.

/Rolf

Since you're using the date the version was posted as the "version", you should include the time as well. Currently, it will ignore newer updates on the same date if you updated to a version from that date already.

First of all - jup2 is a nice piece of software!

But - it would be a good idea to mark jup2 as beta version, because there are too much missing features and it is not running stable at the moment.

When I try to update my addons (curse is at high load atm) I got an error and jup2 freezed.

Updating: [Addon id [fubar], name [FuBar 3.0]]
Error downloading addon [[Addon id [fubar], name [FuBar 3.0]]]: java.net.SocketTimeoutException: Read timed out
Exception in thread "Thread-3" java.lang.NullPointerException
        at jwu2.core.AddonUtils.updateAddon(AddonUtils.java:125)
        at jwu2.core.AddonUpdateThread.run(AddonUpdateThread.java:65)
        at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)

And the annoying thing is, that jup2 starts updating/downloading from the begining it doesn't matter whether 10 addon updates had been successful downloaded before. I think there is a little bit code missing to handle this state.

Quote from rolfba

I must say i dont see the big problem with the copy & pasting of urls. It took me around 20min to find urls for all my addons, just by looking at the unhandled page, searching on wowace / curse, and adding them.

i can't say if i'll spend the 3 hours or so redoing about 380+ addons with WAU or curse or Jwow on 3 different pc's, and scratching my head with URL's for addons with duplicate wowint/curse/wowace locations, separated/bundled addons like auctioneer suite, or perhaps more popular items like lightheaded, cartographer or mobmap with multiple addon folders and no single URL. it's not a tidy system if you can't pin an addon to a source comfortable with auto updaters redownloading the same file 8-times a day, per-ip, etc.

for authors like tekkub or elkano, etc, who have a dozen or so complementary addons on static pages like wowace or wowinterface, it seems perfect. neat. very 2006. no offense to those guys, they do good work, etc.

thats not my situation, nor others. addons aren't all from wowace, wowint or curse, they are found on blogs, google code pages, buried in forum posts, etc. places where search engines fear to tread.

So i dont see the big problem here. But if you want to start a wiki, by all means do so :)

/Rolf

new users will need a bit of a primer in what URL's will/won't work for jwow2, pointing at wowint/curse/wowace and upcoming mirror sites is fine for now.

i was somewhat used to this with WUU, hence the angry, bitter disappointment in going back to static URL's and losing all the genuine features from the original app. obviously that bridge is burnt now, and the well poisoned, etc. if i wanted WUU, i'd use WUU.

while the 900+ posts of ongoing dialogue helps to explain the changes and the upcoming ones, it's still a functionally different program now.

i've only somewhat recently given up on updaters to do the things i greedily accepted they 'did' as a job, its still a harsh awakening. i truly miss the old jwow, the auto-update to 2.0 was heart-rending, like waking up to the aftermath of a forest fire you didn't see coming.

moreso for the UI changes from jwow 1 to 2, and the loss of functions that imaginably were linked to wowace ?, i.e. external lib checking ? checking for required dependencies ? all gone.

ultimately, it seems that there is very much the developer/user relationship you see on other developer communities, i.e. "why do you only complain when i change things" responses. perhaps theres no good way of asking why an updater doesn't update. or perhaps, answering that kind of question either.

Quote from Tornado911

First of all - jup2 is a nice piece of software!

But - it would be a good idea to mark jup2 as beta version

I don't think you got the point here. JWU2 is the best you can get at the moment - Curse/Wowace did a buckload of changes to their website so that only their own Pay-Us-or-click-per-update-client would work.

The old jWowUpdater is no more. There is no "stable branch".

moreso for the UI changes from jwow 1 to 2, and the loss of functions that imaginably were linked to wowace ?, i.e. external lib checking ? checking for required dependencies ? all gone.

It's a terrible loss - I think Curse/Wowace are shooting themself by restricting everything to their own pay-to-update client. JWowUpdater (1) was near-perfect.

Quote from nirias

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It's a terrible loss - I think Curse/Wowace are shooting themself by restricting everything to their own pay-to-update client. JWowUpdater (1) was near-perfect.

Curse Client is free to use. Download everything with a one-click method is not. It's not the same.

Quote from rolfba

I must say i dont see the big problem with the copy & pasting of urls. It took me around 20min to find urls for all my addons, just by looking at the unhandled page, searching on wowace / curse, and adding them.

So i dont see the big problem here. But if you want to start a wiki, by all means do so :)

/Rolf

If you take the additional step of adding them to "favorites" on the respective sites it makes it easy to do it again if/when the site changes it's URL structure.

Any idea when there will be a Mac compatable release for the new JWU?

Quote from Allara

Not anymore.

Guess I have to make my first cake then :)
Just realised I didn't ever use that recipe after I got it after weeks of "farming" :rolleyes:

Any Update on if Programs like JWU will be allowed to access cursed.com in the future? Kaelten?