I simply love Notepad++. It works well. I recently upgraded to 3.5.2 (to get rid of the nag dialog that came up each time I run the program) and for the third time (due to past upgrades) I lost my plug-ins.
It would be really nice to be notified that the upgrade was incompatible with my installed plug-ins BEFORE I downloaded and installed the upgrade.
Generally plug-ins lag in implementation to the program. As a result, rather than seeing improvements of upgrades I generally see a loss of functionality.
Getting back to my previous state is really difficult and annoying (since I don't generally remember what I had installed).
If you cannot assure me that I will not loose functionality, please don't nag me about upgrading.
Thanks for considering my simple request.
Max
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The plugins could be the extended features of Notepad++, but they are absolutely not part of Notepad++ project (ie. they are not developed and maintained by Notepad++ dev team).
The reasons to remove all the unstable or incompatible plugins by installer are :
1. to ensure the stability of Notepad++
2. to make user know about what they did : by restoring the removed plugins manually, users do know better the crash may be due to the plugins they restored.
So this policy is not gonna be changed.
If you want to updatie your Notepad++ by keeping your unstable plugins, use the zipped packages. They are done for giving users more control to update their Notepad++.
If you would like to refer to this comment somewhere else in this project, copy and paste the following link:
I simply love Notepad++. It works well. I recently upgraded to 3.5.2 (to get rid of the nag dialog that came up each time I run the program) and for the third time (due to past upgrades) I lost my plug-ins.
It would be really nice to be notified that the upgrade was incompatible with my installed plug-ins BEFORE I downloaded and installed the upgrade.
Generally plug-ins lag in implementation to the program. As a result, rather than seeing improvements of upgrades I generally see a loss of functionality.
Getting back to my previous state is really difficult and annoying (since I don't generally remember what I had installed).
If you cannot assure me that I will not loose functionality, please don't nag me about upgrading.
Thanks for considering my simple request.
Max
The plugins could be the extended features of Notepad++, but they are absolutely not part of Notepad++ project (ie. they are not developed and maintained by Notepad++ dev team).
The reasons to remove all the unstable or incompatible plugins by installer are :
1. to ensure the stability of Notepad++
2. to make user know about what they did : by restoring the removed plugins manually, users do know better the crash may be due to the plugins they restored.
So this policy is not gonna be changed.
If you want to updatie your Notepad++ by keeping your unstable plugins, use the zipped packages. They are done for giving users more control to update their Notepad++.