DependsOn in Manifest not working when addon is out of date

CrazyDutchGuy · 07/06/14, 05:13 AM

If you use DependsOn in your manifest file, and the addon you depend on is marked out of date, your addon will still load.

Looks imo a bug. Anyone else encountered this behavior before ?

zgrssd · 07/06/14, 05:49 AM

Are you certain it is actually loaded/excuted? The checkbox only implies an intention to execute it.
Easiest way to check that is BugEater+PreInitDebug+OptionalDependency+d() in the .lua file.

I once had an issue where I was missing a Dependency. Dependant Addon was not loaded and for some reason the name of the dependency did not appear either ("Depends on: ").

Could it be that you misswrote in the Manifest?
Like the XML, errors while processing the manifest are silently ignored. It could help if you post the manifest.

Garkin · 07/06/14, 06:15 AM

I have tested how it works and even if addon manager (on character selection screen) does not show dependency error, addon is not loaded.

If you are talking about your ATLAS Logger, you have typo in the manifest:

Code:

## DependsOn : ATLAS

This command is not recognized because of space between DependsOn and the colon.

Also addon name is case sensitive, so you should use:

Code:

## DependsOn: Atlas

CrazyDutchGuy · 07/06/14, 06:29 AM

Zzzz it was working fine before but somehow a space was added so it didn't work anymore

Lua Code:

Wrong
##DependsOn : yourAddon
Right
##DependsOn: yourAddon

CrazyDutchGuy · 07/06/14, 06:30 AM

hmm the case sensitivity i didn't notice even. That resolves all the problems.

CrazyDutchGuy · 07/06/14, 07:08 AM

Took the opportunity to update the wiki http://wiki.esoui.com/Addon_manifest_(.txt)_format

zgrssd · 07/06/14, 01:00 PM

Wait, the list is space seperated?
Then I am wondering if my optional dependecies has ever been working like this:

Code:

## OptionalDependsOn: LibStub, timer, LibAddonMenu-2.0, LAM-1to2-Interface, libDebug, BugEater

If they are ignoring comma's it would propably work out. If not then this line never did anything (but the only one that really matered was BugEater anyway).