The final line was unneeded . I'm not going to start something here with publically "naming names". But I know at least one author that has made plain mention of using Dongle in their Googlecode SVN revision notes .

If you want to strongly discourage anyone referring to Dongle except in the code, yes fine, that's very much your right. I frankly don't see the problem with mod authors making mention of what they use for other libraries, though.

If someone is doing boosterism--"I'm using Kenny's Library because its the best/its small & efficient/it breeds cute kitties"--that's, IMHO, neither here nor there, as long as its accurate. I just don't see it mattering.

Its same thing as a mod author who doesn't use any third-party libraries telling people in the mod description that they "have made optimizations to my mod to make its display of kitties more realistic". Its not "marketing", its telling people simple technical details.

If, on the other hand, the main devs for that library are actually encouraging people to make large mention of the library in their mod descriptions, then yes, that might be "marketing". "Encouraging people" meaning regularly saying to do so in the Kenny's Library forums, putting up advice to do so in Kenny's Library wiki, encouraging authors to randomly criticize other libraries in mod descriptions, etc..

I don't see that happening, so I can't see what's happening with Fishing Ace as "marketing" (other than the mod title). Others may disagree.

Find me an addon that touts that its a "Dongle addon" and I will take care of it. It's absolutely not encouraged, and I actively fight it.

It's extremely important to me that an addon stand on its own regards, not sit as part of a marketing machine, by the way. Making hasty generalizations without knowing what you're talking about is a bad thing.

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Actually any author that showed off that they used Dongle in their mod description would be murdered by clad, saying "Switched to Dongle" or "Updated Dongle to latest version" in a changelog doesn't count, it's called SVN and keeping logs of what you're doing.

Having an image with "Ace" in it, having the title with Ace in it even in the Ace category, and then mentioning it as a standard Ace2 addon is marketing, and it's stupid and useless.

this is exactly my point

It is none of your concern/business what I use to make my addons. stick to yelling at me whats wrong with it usability-wise.

Many (many) people are wrong in mentioning that they use some kind of backend as it IS marketing. period.

also, you mean "the addon devs" not "the library devs" and I know that it has been discouraged, I've been there from the start/been part of that decision.

As it stands right now today 9.9.07 this mod does.. 1 thing it replaces the normal bobber sound with "i saw a fish"..

It doesnt auto cast, it wont autolure, what exactly is the point of this mod? at least with fishing buddy you are tracking useful information etc.. here you are just wasting peoples time/memory space/etc. People may as well simply replace the sound effect in the data folder rather than load a mod to do it.

As for the name being fishing ace... that is really the last thing on the list thats wrong with this particular mod!

So in closing either fix the mod to do more than change the sound effects, or just pull it from distribution.

So says the dev who has moved to Dongle .

Many (many) mods make mention in their comments/description of the libraries they use in the code, Ace, Dongle or otherwise. Its not "marketing"; no problem there.

But yes, using "Ace" in a mod name is something that has been discouraged for a while by the library devs (since the switch to Ace2).

could you ditch the ace in the name and mention of back-end code in the comments? its not marketing.

For some reason, I can get the auto lure function to work. I am using version 0.4.1 in the 2.1.0 WoW patch.

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Sounds promising, just replaced FishingBuddy and I'll take it for a spin when I get around to it .