UICentral on the other hand had some development snafu (something about a snippet of code that was copyrighted or somesuch) that caused them to yank it and it's been M.I.A. The move of all the Ace mods to Curse has had me seriously contemplating if I want to continue using them, as I truly think Curse is one of the most ass-backwards sites out there, and their updater client was bloody AWFUL, to the point I had to actually torch my entire UI folder and start from scratch because it kept updating with wrong versions, adding mods that were part of completely random mod packs, and installing multiple versions of the same mod in some instances! Messaggio di to using WoWmatrix, I used two different clients to update my mods, WoWAceUpdater (WAU) and UICentral from WoWUI. If you spend 2-3 hours updating your addons on patch day you're doing something wrong. If you are still unsure of the history of the situation, i suggest that you read the following : Services to Authors lack of tools such as version control, forums, issue tracking.Conduct of Behaviour to authors and authorised distributors in the past. One final note as to why many authors(including myself) choose not to have our projects hosted on wowmatrix is for two main reasons : So to summarise, the only up-to-date addons you will through wowmatrix are ones providing permission for wowmatrix to do so (either pre-emptivly via a gpl license or through having siad addon hosted on wowmatrix servers). Note that even if you (as a distributor) do receive permission to re-distribute the addon, you still have no agreement to use the bandwidth of the site hosting the addon other than as a normal user with a browser or their provided clients. providing a gpl license, therefore allowing an addon to be freely distributed as long as the source code and license is included.Īlot of the addons you are getting from wowace have changed their license to 'all rights reserved', which means that to continue distributing the newer version(no longer covered by the gpl) you need to contact the author for distribution.Wowmatrix is only providing you with addons that are : The addons you think you are getting, are quite old. Actually quite a few addons are still available at least 75% of mine are available and the rest are still working.
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