Things I've noticed

[Ovario]

Bug: Addon versions are only recognized correctly about 50% of the time, which results in updating back to an older version or a wrong addon altogether.

Feature Request: Give us the ability to update compilations hosted on WoWInterface.

[ComputerNerd]

Version numbering is iffy, as it is trying to compare numbers in a very simplistic fashion.
Is X number bigger than Y or not.

That tends to fail when they insert extra letters randomly, or revert to revision / build numbers suddenly instead of some decimal version of major/minor releases.

I think curse works because of the curseforge backend which they likely refer to for the sequence of version numbering.

[Phanx]

Originally Posted by ComputerNerd Version numbering is iffy, as it is trying to compare numbers in a very simplistic fashion. Is X number bigger than Y or not.

It's not even that sophisticated... it's literally just checking if both version numbers/strings are the same and telling you to update if they're not. If you have version 9 installed, but the WoWI page is still on version 2, you'll be told to update.

[JDoubleU00]

Originally Posted by Phanx It's not even that sophisticated... it's literally just checking if both version numbers/strings are the same and telling you to update if they're not. If you have version 9 installed, but the WoWI page is still on version 2, you'll be told to update.

That does not make sense. Shouldn't the logic be WI has a newer (i.e. higher) version number than what you have? I realize authors can put any number for their addon.

[Phanx]

You'd think that would be the case, but it's not, unless it's been changed in the last few weeks. Every time I've tried it, it reports tons of addons as needing updates, but if I actually look at the "latest" version vs installed version, there are many cases where both versions are using the same format and the "latest" version is clearly numerically inferior, but I'm told to "update" anyway.

If you only have addons you installed from WoWI you shouldn't ever run into this situation, but unfortunately that isn't a viable option for me, as many of the addons I use are either not on WoWI at all, or have WoWI versions that lag far behind the versions available on Curse.

[Dolby]

Originally Posted by rocnroll That does not make sense. Shouldn't the logic be WI has a newer (i.e. higher) version number than what you have? I realize authors can put any number for their addon.

Version numbers don't always have numbers. We are working to improve this though as right now Minion only checks if the version is different. So we are working on ones where authors do have only int based versions and doing just that. It still will have trouble with authors that put letters and words into the version string.

This is why we make the version numbers big and visible when Minion wants to update it. You can right click the AddOn wanting an update and choose to ignore updates for that AddOn.

[Seerah]

Also, what if author A uses this versioning scheme:

• 1.8
• 1.9
• 1.10
• 1.11

But author B uses this:

• 1.08
• 1.09
• 1.10
• 1.11