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The modern Essentials suite for Spigot and Paper.
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Config Auto-Update #3286

Open LordOmen opened 4 years ago

LordOmen commented 4 years ago

Give Essentials the ability to auto-update the config.yml

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Essentials has one of the longest configs out there. Not having to through the whole config every time there is an update would be helpful.

editid1 commented 4 years ago

this could be helpful on the occasion that they add a new line to the config instead of regenerating and resetting it

pop4959 commented 4 years ago

This won't be happening anytime soon, because auto-updating causes all comments to get nuked.

On the bright side, config changes per version are usually not too big, and the defaults are usually designed in a way such that it doesn't mess with your existing stuff. It's up to you if you want to re-generate it, and stay up to date on the newest features. I recommend using a diff checking tool which should easily point out differences between old config and the new.

JRoy commented 4 years ago

Reopening as a 3.0 goal. Also this is something I may want a stab at

mdcfe commented 4 years ago

The philosophy throughout the lifetime of 2.x has always been that when the plugin is updated, it should maintain the previous behaviour until the server owner decides to manually upgrade their config. For 3.x I'm considering a move to Configurate (possibly YAML but I'd like to switch to HOCON), and automatic migrations could be considered then.