Originally Posted by forty2j
There's a flaw in this analogy.
Addon authors don't get paid anyway, in any real terms. It's basically a hobby, nothing more. Authors write something because they, personally, want to use it. Sometimes they're nice and share it.
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I agree with you, entirely. I was simply explaining why I thought the way I did because that's the environment I work within, on a daily basis. :)
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But if the process of sharing it becomes too difficult in their eyes, they'll just stop sharing.
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And that's where it stops adding up (in my opinion).
Authors must already enter in a version string when they upload their addon. It's something they already do. There is no extra step they must or must not take.
What I was suggesting was that the
format of that version string be standardised. I was only
suggesting a format, though, not stating that's the one it should be. There are many reasons that one version-format may be better than another yet not be a good one to use as a site-format. The other version-format that may be better for use on a site for progress-tracking would be a revision-number. Both are version-formats, one just happens to be no more than an incremental integer.
This is not a major step for authors, though. It's not even a major step for users (except, perhaps, in that they'll have a more across-the-board method of recognising revisions).
It "simply" means that authors will need to type a string of a specific format.
Ain't exactly rocket science - though from certain people's reactions, you'd think it was.
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Originally Posted by Vyper
It is not WoWInterfaces place to tell me how to version my addons
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I agree - kind of - but they wouldn't be telling you how to version your addon - they'd be tell you how they expect you to format the version-string for identification of your addon on their site. Difference.
Note that the tag I suggested was "X-Minion-Version" and not "Version" (which is generally always used as the tag to identify the *addon* version, in the style the author prefers). I chose a Minion-specific tag quite deliberately. :)
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Originally Posted by Vyper
Which is greater? 1.1.11? Or 1.1.2? The uneducated user will most likely think 1.1.2 is the newer version.
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I tested the theory by asking various different members of my family and friends your question. Unequivocally, they all thought that 1.1.11 was greater than 1.1.2 and a couple thought my question was actually very silly (both being as non-technical people as you're likely to get).
At the very least, it reminded me of one very important rule, when it comes to users: never, ever assume that they're going react in any specific way; they have a habit of screwing you up. :D
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Originally Posted by lilsparky
anyway, if minion had a feedback feature where people could flag a mod as being out-of-date that info could be used by minion to ignore a mod, but also it could be sent back to wowi and wowi could email mod authors of out-of-date mods to ask them to update or acknowledge the mod is indeed out-of-date.
if they update, then everybody's happy. if they acknowledge the mod is out-of-date, then it gets flagged as such at the wowi level and all minion updates will ignore it unless specifically told to download it.
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In short: I like both of those ideas. :P