2021-03-07, 02:23
(2021-03-06, 19:40)justin150 Wrote: ... Many people will not be moving over to Kodi 19 until much later, probably not until we hit version 19.3 or even later because of past experiences when moving from Kodi 17 to 18, of course others will not move because of laziness. Kodi 18 to 19 is a much bigger change (and definitely for the better), so it is likely people will wait just a little longer.I agree with this. I have had terrible experiences with upgrading major versions of Kodi in the past, and once even had to skip an entire version waiting for something to get fixed because the developers didn't think it worthwhile to make an interim fix for the then-current version. Later releases have been less problematic but now we have this requirement to use Python 3 which I am sure has broken many older addons. It would be one thing if I had a spare media center PC that I could install the new version on and see what works and what doesn't, but since I don't and since my current system is finally functioning exactly as I want it to (even the random crashes have pretty much stopped!) I am extremely reluctant to upgrade. It's partly because of the principle of "if it ain't broke..." but also because my guess is the Kodi developers really don't care if older addons are broken and their developers are no longer around to fix them. It's definitely not laziness because upgrading couldn't be much simpler (at least in Ubuntu), it is simply fear that things that work perfectly now will not do so after an upgrade.
I could understand it if we are talking about large scale changes but in this case the add on just seems to require some minor changes (although I am struggling to understand them). No one will object if you say you will stop maintaining after a few months but to stop immediately when even some of the skin are not yet Kodi 19 compatible is not right.