(2021-03-07, 17:18)Klojum Wrote: (2021-03-07, 02:23)oldtvwatcher Wrote: 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.
Python v2 simply went EOL recently. Kodi announced the Python v3 migration TWO years ago. I think most Kodi official add-ons have been migrated, while 3rd party add-ons is basically "not our problem".
It's the eternal balance between free spare time (yes, we are not paid employees in some company), enthusiasm, and the height of the pile of work ahead of you as a developer. It's just like the circle of life: things come and they go, add-ons as well as developers. FWIW, I'd say that Multi-Weather does a fine job as Yahoo Weather replacement.
I understand your point and agree that at some point you had to drop support for Python v2, the only thing I hate is that it seems like the second you guys release a new version you abandon all support for the previous one and expect all your users to upgrade immediately. A lot of other software packages will give you some time to upgrade and will support a version or two back (Ubuntu is an example). I would not be so reluctant to upgrade if I had not been burned in the past OR if it were really easy to roll back to the previous version if you find you are having problems, but on Linux, unless you are a major Linux nerd it's very difficult if not impossible to roll back to an earlier software version if something goes amiss (this is a gripe I have about Linux software in general, not just Kodi) And this version of Kodi is a pretty major change, after all.
Also I am not really faulting you for saying third party addons are not your problem, but I only use addons from the official Kodi repo, not from some dodgy third-party site. Somehow I would expect those to get a bit more love but then again I definitely recognize the problem of there only being so many hours in a day and that you don't want to spend all of them hunched over a keyboard. I think in some ways Kodi is a victim of its own success, it has gotten too big and tries to be too many things to too many people, but that's already been done so you really can't roll it back now because whatever you scaled back on would upset somebody.