2016-08-01, 19:11
Heads up for all skinners that are using the skinhelper addon.
I'm in the process of (slowly) migrating stuff into seperated addons and module libraries for better code maintenance.
In the future this means that several parts of the skinhelper features can be used as a seperated addon or as module/library for other addons.
It may seam more complicated to have multiple smaller addons/modules instead of one large one but it allows me to better maintain the code and allows for more flexibility. For example, if you only need a color picker you can just only use the colorpicker addon instead of having to use the whole skinhelper addon.
The current skinhelper addon will stay to exist as the "parent addon", including all modules so nothing will have to be changed skinning-side.
Atm it's a little problematic maybe if you are using the latest version from Git. In that case you'll have to make to also download the new modules untill those are added to the Kodi repo.
At time of writing there are already 2 new modules added to my Github repo: script.module.thetvdb and script.module.musicbrainz
Make sure to install those on your Kodi install before trying to update skinhelper from Github.
The following weeks I will be busy migrating code and while at it, making sure to do some code review/optimimalisations.
I'll notify here once things are in place. Offcourse all new scripts and modules come with a readme on Git and will be added to the Kodi repo.
If there are no objections I will add this to the Jarvis (and up) Kodi repo, meaning that Helix and Isengard will not be updated and stay on the old, current version.
I'm in the process of (slowly) migrating stuff into seperated addons and module libraries for better code maintenance.
In the future this means that several parts of the skinhelper features can be used as a seperated addon or as module/library for other addons.
It may seam more complicated to have multiple smaller addons/modules instead of one large one but it allows me to better maintain the code and allows for more flexibility. For example, if you only need a color picker you can just only use the colorpicker addon instead of having to use the whole skinhelper addon.
The current skinhelper addon will stay to exist as the "parent addon", including all modules so nothing will have to be changed skinning-side.
Atm it's a little problematic maybe if you are using the latest version from Git. In that case you'll have to make to also download the new modules untill those are added to the Kodi repo.
At time of writing there are already 2 new modules added to my Github repo: script.module.thetvdb and script.module.musicbrainz
Make sure to install those on your Kodi install before trying to update skinhelper from Github.
The following weeks I will be busy migrating code and while at it, making sure to do some code review/optimimalisations.
I'll notify here once things are in place. Offcourse all new scripts and modules come with a readme on Git and will be added to the Kodi repo.
If there are no objections I will add this to the Jarvis (and up) Kodi repo, meaning that Helix and Isengard will not be updated and stay on the old, current version.
