[Announcement]: AdiBags is nearing End of Life -- Replace with BetterBags!

[Cidan]

Describe the feature

Hi everyone,

AdiBags has had an amazing 15 year run or so as the best darn bag addon for WoW. However, over those 15 years, past design decisions fundamental to the operation of the addon have made it increasingly difficult to support new features and fix the constant slew of bugs that have risen over the years.

With that, we are announcing the soon-to-be deprecation of AdiBags, with an eventual sunset in Q1 2024 as we focus our efforts on the next evolution of AdiBags: BetterBags!

BetterBags is a complete replacement for AdiBags, and is still a work in progress. BetterBags is available today in alpha state in the github repo, github.com/Cidan/BetterBags. The codebase for BetterBags is 100% original and a total rewrite of the AdiBags concept, with newer software engineering principles applied, making the addon much more stable and easier to extend in most places.

That being said, BetterBags does not yet have all the features of AdiBags, and it is a work in progress. AdiBags will see continued simple maintenance until BetterBags is up to speed, but no new feature requests or bugs will be fixed unless they are game breaking, i.e. a new patch breaks the addon. After BetterBags has most of the useful features of AdiBags, AdiBags will release a version that disables the bag and directs people to install BetterBags.

I encourage everyone to give BetterBags a shot today, as it's already fully usable as an AdiBags replacement and is significantly less buggy overall. Over the next few weeks, we'll put out major updates that will bring a majority of AdiBags features to BetterBags.

Thank you everyone, and here's to a better bag future!

EDIT: This message is now 4 months old, and BetterBags has implemented a vast majority of the features in AdiBags. BetterBags should be a suitable replacement for most use cases, however work continues on more features.

Describe the implementation

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[Kasamir]

Look forward to it being on curse so I can update through wowup and check progress

[jgwallace3]

Good news! TY for the effort!

[KatyPurry]

Good news ! Thank you for your dedication.

P.S : new logo is awesome !

[steven-fuller]

"AdiBags will release a version that disables the bag and directs people to install BetterBags."

Please, please, please do not do this.
Purposefully breaking functionality has been received VERY POORLY (see Altoholic vs TotalRP3, the MDT cluster or even the gshade logic bomb) and could annoy enough people to trigger TOS complaints to Blizzard.
A chat message upon login about BetterBags or a nag screen when opening the Adibags config would be sufficient. Or just let it rot like almost every other broken addon does.

Get people to move by actually being better and not by disabling their choices. Wowhead is always looking for content and I'm sure an article about the transition would be widely seen.

[Cidan]

Purposefully breaking functionality...

This addon will completely stop working with the next API change, and this repository will be locked. It will break either with a massive amount of Lua errors, or by my hand gracefully, notifying people to move on. I will offer an override, but when it does break in-game permanently, I will disable the addon permanently as well.

Or just let it rot like almost every other broken addon does.

This is unacceptable and I will not do this. I will be gracefully sunsetting the addon over time.

and could annoy enough people to trigger TOS complaints to Blizzard.

Wowhead is always looking for content and I'm sure an article about the transition would be widely seen.

Please refrain from using scare or intimidation tactics with us.

Thanks!

[SpareSimian]

Can you add something to the init code that shuts it down if BetterBags is detected? This would make it easy to switch back and forth by simply enabling/disabling the BB addon and reloading. It would also make it possible for me to write some Lua to "steal" the settings from the shut-down AdiBags and inject it into BB's settings.

[Cidan]

Can you add something to the init code that shuts it down if BetterBags is detected? This would make it easy to switch back and forth by simply enabling/disabling the BB addon and reloading.

AdiBags will eventually completely and totally break, as the API will certainly change for 11. As I mentioned above, I will have an override so the bag can be enabled until the API changes and the addon can no longer load, at which point I will permanently disabled AdiBags as distributed.

[marknl]

What a rollercoaster of emotions in a single post..
Adibags EOL .. WHAAT!! .. but wait, we're continuing with Betterbags YAY!

Thank you for making AdiBags, I'll surely checkout BetterBags (btw don't forget to add the keyring! ;))

[pierrecorsini]

BetterBags lacks a lot of visual config compared to AdiBags :)