Re: [e-users] modules nag...

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On 10/17/2012 07:39 PM, Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Oct 2012 20:45:20 +0300 (EEST) Robert Krambovitis<ro...@sp...>
> said:
>
>> You added a nag about unofficial modules ?
>> And the list is hard coded ?!
>>
>> Seriously ?
> yup.
>
>> Are you planning on adding a "don't nag about these modules" configuration or
>> whitelist file ? Or at least a way to disable the nag at E start ?
>> or even an "acknowledge, don't tell me again about these modules" button ?
> not planning on adding any way to disable it. i'm tired of "when i use places
> module e crashes" and "i get random segvs all day - help me" (in the end
> convincing them to unload enagage fixed the crashes) etc.
>
> we are doing a release here. trying to fix bugs that are E bugs. not the bugs
> of random module X. e-modules-extra modules are "random modules" as they mostly
> just have no maintenance.
>
> you're using code from svn and that code is intended to be going through QA
> testing and i am encouraging thq QA testing to stop wasting peoples time.
>
> be happy i simply didn't just deny the ability to load ANY modules other than
> in the whitelist. you still can. you just get a nag. in the same way us devs
> have been nagged day after day, week after week, month after month about
> modules we don't maintain and we don't care about. i'm very well tried of
> saying "do you have any modules loaded not shipped with e?" and then people
> sanying no and they end up having these extra modules loaded anyway after 5 or
> 10 minutes of back and forth.
>
I noticed the nag yesterday. I don't have a problem with it, and I'm 
glad that I can still use the couple unsupported modules that I do use: 
net and forecasts. The nag will remind me to remove those first and see 
if I still have the problem. Thanks all for your work, looking forward 
to the release!