The Future of PlusKit

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My bad.

no apologies necessary. :smiley:

So am I understanding your many words to say that you will, at some point, issue a fully fixed version of the PlusKIt

Yep. I think that was step #1. :stuck_out_tongue_closed_eyes:

Itā€™s kinda hard to keep past sites simple since they are already developed, and we can only hobble along so long on RW 7.0 before other addons and stacks inevitably wonā€™t work. And, as Iā€™m sure youā€™re aware, clients donā€™t really dig paying to recode a site because something called ā€œPlusKitā€ that theyā€™ve never heard of doesnā€™t work any more.

Yes. I appreciate this. This is not an ideal solution. If there was an ideal solution, Iā€™d choose that instead.

RapidWeaver needed to make big changes. Those changes broke PlusKit. And here we are.

If this doesnā€™t sound like what you signed up for ā€“ I understand completely. Please contact our support folks. They can issue you a refund and you can move on. I think thatā€™s a perfectly reasonable course of action.

If you are definitely planning to issue an update to PlusKit, can you please estimate by when?

This is something I cannot do. Estimating software is notoriously inaccurate. And the PlusKit changes will require significant engineering ā€“ which exacerbates the inaccuracies. If I told you a completion date it would be a lie.

What I can tell you is what I do know for sure:

  • Itā€™s my top priority
  • There will be a new beta version of PlusKit that substantially improves both performance and compatibility with RapidWeaver 7.1 in the next few days.
  • Improvements to both PlusKit (and Stacksā€™ to help coexistence) will continue until PlusKit become robust enough to release as v4.0

Isaiah

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Thank you! No refund necessary. Just looking to get a sense of timing. I appreciate your response.

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Thanks for the detailed response Isaiah, looking forward to see how you take the Swiss Army knife forward!

Regards

Mark

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Contact Form behaving bizarely
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Rapidweaver is telling me there is an update to pluskit. But when I try to install it gives me
The following updates failed to install:
LHMarkdown
I have restarted both RW and the computer. Same thing happens.
Pluskit v4.0b4 (Build #1272) is what is trying to install.
Thanks for any direction

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well, I just spent 2 days getting rid of Pluskit on my site lol. it did seem to fix a lot of things, and I found a way to get around it. But itā€™s nice to know it might be usable in the future :slight_smile:

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@llangpierce ā€“ RapidWeaver will only do automatic updates and installation when things are just right. If anything is amiss or if there were issues with the download then it will just give up.

Iā€™d recommend just deleting the old one and installing the new one by hand.

  1. download the plugin
  2. decompress
  3. drag into the addons folder

Hereā€™s a quick gif that shows download from Slack, opening the RW addons folder, and copying in by hand.
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/433436/forum/2016-12-10%2018.58.47.gif

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i have the same messageThe following updates failed to install:
LHMarkdown

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then iā€™d recommend the same solution. :wink:

that said, iā€™m looking into it. i think there may be something broken about the way the auto-update info was published. weā€™ll catch it on the next beta.

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This is great! Thank YOU