marco.mosca wrote:
>
> First of all I would like to understand the difference between
> deprecated and unsupported.
>
Unsupported=Nobody has officially tested the plugin with the LMS version
and nobody have said they are going to fix any existing or future bugs
caused by the plugin itself or current or future LMS version. None of my
plugins are possible to install in LMS 8.0 or later unless you have
checked the Use unsupported extensions checkbox which also state that
you are aware of the risk that the plugins might even make whole LMS
unstable. If you have issues with LMS, one of the first thing you should
do IMHO is to uninstall any unsupported plugins to verify that they
dont cause the problem.
Deprecated=The plugin/functionality is still supported and bugs will be
fixed and users will be offered support if they have issues. However,
deprecated means that the plugin or functionality is planned to be
removed in the future. LMS has no way to indicate that a functionality
is deprecated as far as I know, so if you want such indication you will
have to monitor the forum and read between the lines. The fact that the
last release of Dynamic Playlist was more than 4 years ago when I told
everyone via forum that I wasnt going to have the time to maintain it
should be an indication. The fact that the last bug correction was 8
years ago should be an even better indication.
So I guess you can consider my version of Dynamic Playlist to be
deprecated and unsupported since 2017.
My personal recommendation, which Ive previously stated in the forum,
is that people that want to keep the functionality in my plugins should
look for a different solution or try to encourage other plugin
developers to implement something similar (like afriend did)
When someone (like afriend) decides to test, fix bugs and adjust
functionality in an unsupported plugin so you can get an officially
supported version again, thats a really good thing. Some functionality
might break or disappear because it relies on other unsupported plugins
but having a version thats officially tested and supported and might
get new features in the future is still a good thing IMHO. When another
developer offers a new version its natural that the roadmap for the
future goes in another direction.
marco.mosca wrote:
>
> Some users, including me, have made specific setup based on the above
> mentioned plugins and happy to stay stable on those setup.
>
If you use LMS 7.8.*, which is the last LMS version which my Dynamic
Playlist plugin was tested on, you will get my version since afriend
only offers his version on LMS 7.9 and later. Of course, using LMS 7.8
is no solution because then you are using an LMS version thats no
longer supported and might stop working at any time due to OS upgrades
and other similar things.
Im sorry about the situation, but this kind of issues is something you
will have to live with when you are using free software which relies on
people spending their spare time to fix bugs or add functionality. The
best way forward is to try to encourage the new developer in all
possible ways, complaining on someone who spend their spare time to
offer things for free is just going to make the situation worse.
Erland Isaksson ('My homepage' (http://erland.isaksson.info))
Developer of 'many plugins/applets'
(https://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.php/User_Erland.html)
*Starting with LMS 8.0 I no longer support my plugins/applets* ('see
here for more information'
(https://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?49483-Announce-New-versions-of-erlands-plugins&p=998836&viewfull=1#post998836)
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