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!
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!
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
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.
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.
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.
Should I now assume that the HIGHEST revision is Release and the other 2 are Beta and Alpha?
It's very simple: every time an author commits a set of changes to the source control repository, the revision increments by one. So the highest revision number is always the most recent revision. Separate from that mechanism, WowAce allows developers to choose a type for each revision. Every revision is alpha by default. Authors can tag the revision to turn it into beta or release. You only want those. HunterZ explained how you can see which type a revision is earlier in this thread.
In Arch it's ;)
Telnet! Yes!
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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.
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".
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:
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You can also click on the files link and it will say the whole word for the file type:
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It's very simple: every time an author commits a set of changes to the source control repository, the revision increments by one. So the highest revision number is always the most recent revision. Separate from that mechanism, WowAce allows developers to choose a type for each revision. Every revision is alpha by default. Authors can tag the revision to turn it into beta or release. You only want those. HunterZ explained how you can see which type a revision is earlier in this thread.
Ah damn, just as I got it customized just the way I like it, in Linux too! ;)
There. Fixed it for you.
Thankfully I live in a state that has those laws! =D