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Quote from Lotuzz

Rrrright....i thought there was some kind of feature in firefox which would allow us to update addons ??? Thanks for explaining tho :p

In Arch it's

# pacman -Syu

;)

Personally, I find that only manually coding HTTP headers and opening sockets brings the necessary difficulty level required for the downloading of addons. You people and your newfangled browsers have it easy!

But only if they're running through your proxy server written in gawk

I've been manually downloading/updating my addons.

So far, www.wowinterface.com is my current favorite addon distributor as it has a "My Favorites" page where I can put all of the addons I like.

It gets bolded if it has an update and moved to the top of the page. I just download those.

But, alas, www.wowinterface.com does NOT have all of the addons I use hence the need to go site hopping for other addons.

I sure would love for www.wowace.com to have a favorites page and indicate which addons are updated (i.e. move to the top).

I also don't mind making it so that I could type in the address bar: www.wowace.com/projects/MyAddOn to display the author's comments about their addon. I do have to click the download links twice. At least that is better than the "download from curse" link.

Also, is there really a reason to keep a more than 4 versions of said addon? I think Release and Development should be adequate. Or maybe Latest Release, Last Stable Release, Development. In any case, everybody here will download the development versions anyways. :D

I do like the layout of the current wowace.com.

There are only 3 versions as far as WowAce/Curse is concerned: Release, Beta and Alpha. Alpha versions are only available on WowAce, while Beta and Release are generally available on both sites.

Quote from HunterZ

There are only 3 versions as far as WowAce/Curse is concerned: Release, Beta and Alpha. Alpha versions are only available on WowAce, while Beta and Release are generally available on both sites.

Skillet is one of my favorite addons.

http://www.wowace.com/projects/skillet/ gets me to that page.

In the right hand side there 6 files (well... 3 as one has no libs). I assume that r154 is the latest one, 153 and 152 are other versions.

Should I now assume that the HIGHEST revision is Release and the other 2 are Beta and Alpha?

Looking at http://wow.curse.com/downloads/wow-addons/details/skillet/download/301205.aspx the file is labeled as Skillet 1.12. However, the notes says r147 tagged as 1.12. So the "Curse" version is r147 then that would make r154 in www.wowace.com/projects/skillet the development?

I'm confused now.

I've always thought that wowinterface.com and curse.com (and wowui.com) are the release sites so there will be no development versions there and wowace.com has the "latest and the greatest development versions".

ringleron, the newest version can be anything from release to alpha. Usually stable versions get tagged as release while development continues with alpha and beta versions. At some point a new version will get tagged as release at the developer(s) discretion. You will not see alphas on Curse hence why you sometimes can get later versions off WowAce. Only versions deemed by the developer to be stable enough will be marked as beta or release and show on Curse.

Quote from ringleron

Should I now assume that the HIGHEST revision is Release and the other 2 are Beta and Alpha?

No, you should assume that anything with an A next to it in the file list is Alpha, B is Beta and R is Release:

[b]B[/b]  	 r20081108100112  	WoW: 3.0.3  	11/08/2008

...

[b]A[/b] 	r20081108094701 	WoW: 3.0.3 	11/08/2008

You can also click on the files link and it will say the whole word for the file type:

r154  	[b]Alpha[/b]  	Normal  	10/26/2008  	WoW: 3.0.2  	Skillet-r154.zip  	9cf750e6d4f02cf2ccf428d3ced78aa5

...

v1.12  	[b]Release[/b]  	Normal  	10/20/2008  	WoW: 3.0.2  	Skillet-v1.12.zip  	e8c92354ff78c5cf90b4d1eba507f400

Thank you all for the clarification.

Quote from Ackis

With the release of the new CC v4 beta and Minion, I think I'm going to stop development on this updated.

Ah damn, just as I got it customized just the way I like it, in Linux too! ;)

I'm pretty sure most places have laws prohibiting necrophilia... you're a dirty pervert, Ackis!

Yes, yes, that's what I meant. Though I suspect most places would frown on necromancy, too. :p