Originally Posted by gelukelu
I read someone wrote that he likes to update his 100+ addons by hand, and by visiting the 100+ addon pages on curse or wowinterface he could find out what the last changes were, what others are thinking about the new features, what the developer is planning to do next, etc. Well, newsflash! End-user DONT CARE that bug #1242 was fixed and that the addon author added a new slash-command that can do some fancy stuff he doesnt care about. End-user wants to update the addon that doesn't work anymore or just make sure he has the latest version. Because having the latest version is "good" as far as he was told.
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Really should read more of this thread my friend before posting my friend ... .
But we don't like to personally attack people here so I'm going to be nice.
I believe I am the guy you are talking about. I do update my 89 or so addons by hand. The method I use is in my sig. And you know what ? After removing minor updates , tagging updates and localisation changes I am really only downloading updates for my mods at the rate of 4 a week. Even that's too much.
I believe people need to get away from the need to update every single day. I've used a manually updating plan since December last year. Your addons don't change in a major ways that rapidly.
You said it yourself. "End-user wants to update the addon that doesn't work anymore" . This is the one of the 2 reasons why you should update and addon. If it isn't working for you. If it's doing something unexpected or weird or throwing up arcane red errors all over your UI.
Conversely if it's a major update is another really good reason to update. Maybe its a new feature you want to use. Maybe its preformance enhancements. Maybe it's a code rewrite . All valid reasons to update.
But what happens if non of the above is true? What if your UI is working perfectly fine , not conflicting with anything , not spewing up all over everything , no errors what so ever , does everything Joe End User expects ?
Then you don't NEED to update it. Once you remove the need to update your addons daily then you find yourself as I have occasionally forgetting to update your addons. And you know what ? It doesn't matter as I keep my UI stable - even without updating certain addons from time to time.
I mean I can sympathise with needing to use a addon client to update your addons for you. But IMHO there's really no point - it's just shaving maybe 10 or so minutes off a process you don't need do often enough to warrant a tool for it.
PS It's not to say im infalliable - far from it. I had an error coming up that was because while I had current copies of bugsack, buggrabber the library gets errors from hadn't been updated by me since before Wrath come out..... Um opps ?