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Splash Parasites slug #23

Open martin-lueders opened 6 years ago

martin-lueders commented 6 years ago

Hi,

it seems you changed the slug from "SplashParasites" to "Splash Parasites". Was that intended? Before editing my patches i was wondering whether you are planning to change it back?

In future, please try not to change the slugs. Names can be changed, though.

Cheers, Martin

gbrandt1 commented 6 years ago

Hi Martin,

Sorry i'm not sure what you mean. The slugs for 0.6 are Southpole and Southpole-parasites, they didn't change. If you are referring to the non-tagged master, i had to change the name of Splash to Splash Parasite and changed the directory to Southpole also for the parasites because I am not supposed to have two directories in the browser. This change has not been released.

Cheers, Gerhard

martin-lueders commented 6 years ago

Hi Gerhard,

I got the latest update from the plugin-manager.

What happens is that I get the error message when opening an old patch, that the module "SplashParasites" cannot be found. When I look into the patch file of a new patch where I use the module, I see that it has the name (module slug) "Splash Parasites". So you must have introduced the space at some point. If this was deliberate, I will edit my old patches. For now I will wait for you next official release.

You should be able to change the plugin slug to combine the two plugins without having to change the module slug.

Cheers, Martin

martin-lueders commented 6 years ago

Edit: I saw now that the new (current) name is only "Splash" without the parasites at all. The plugin slug is "Southpole-Parasites", so I guess that's why you removed the "Parasites" from the Module slug.

Please, decide one ome way, and then try to keep it that way, as all changes invalidate old patches.

Cheers, Martin

gbrandt1 commented 6 years ago

hi martin,

my proposed solution is as outlined above:

the name (module slug) will be "Splash" and "Splash Parasites". (the alternative would be to invent yet another module name but i think so many different module names for variations of the same thing would be a bit silly...)

the directory name will be "Southpole" in both cases (in order to use a single directory in the browser).

and the plugin slugs will be Southpole and Southpole-parasites. i hope this flies. haven't tried to go through the build-team process yet.

the next release will be a clean-up release from which on i will try to keep things more stable as you request. ETA is unsure as i am very busy at work these days.

cheers, gerhard

martin-lueders commented 6 years ago

Hi Gerhard,

as far as I can see, your proposed solution is the wrong way around.

As all plugins just have the name "plugin.*" you can only have ONE plugin per directory. If you want them to show up under the same "author" in the plugin browser, you can give them the same plugin slug and name.

So, to distinguish the two modules (e.g. Splash and Splash-Parasites) you need to give them different module slugs and names.

Just a stupid question: what prevents you from combining both the original and the parasites firmwares in the same module? Are there also differences between the modes which have the same name?

I dont have the hardware, so I dont know those details.

Cheers, Martin