Stock by Attributes 5.0 Beta (for v1.5.0)

[DivaVocals]

Thank you Diva for the summary. Fortunately I didn't find a copy of the robophung version on the one computer I was looking in, and based on the above I will stop that search. Also, the mod I did for EP4, I will make corrections as necessary, including a note to appear suggesting that the above version be used in place of the one tested for if mods are identified in how I've written the additional code. (For others, this means that I will keep the existing code in place to support those that have come to use it and "refuse" to upgrade, but that the "new" version will be the one that will be incorporated.)

Timeline unknown, but this is the type of input I was hoping to hear. I realize that some of the above is opinion, but if it has been identified as the "fix" to some of the base issues then that is the direction I plan to assist with until something "better" is developed.

ALL of what I wrote is of course my opinion.. I've had strong opinions about SBA and these silly forks of SBA for YEARS.. I liked the ORIGINAL version Kuroi developed, but I knew it ad flaws, and I never like the fact that ther was no way to exclude attributes from a product inventory variant. So I paid a developer to update the ORIGINAL Kuroi version of SBA so that my ONE client who uses it could use it while I continued to watch and wait for the SBA scene to improve.
(and before anyone asks.. why didn't I share this version of SBA?? I didn't because my client would NOT sign off on contributing it --she had paid for these improvements and didn't want to share-- and I didn't want to submit something I had NO PLANS to support..)

I am FIRMLY of the opinion that all this forking of SBA was unnecessary and made SBA a USELESS and WEAK add-on for the community as a whole.. It's great that some folks are able to use some of these forked versions in their stores, but others are not.. The MANY ad-hoc SBA threads is proof of this.. the fact that Numinix developed a commercial product variant module is proof of this, the fact that the late Conor Kerr was developing a HIGHLY anticipated product variants module is further proof of the fact that all this SBA forking has not resulted in a universally USEFUL add-on and a GAP in this kind of functionality still exists..

This all only serves to illustrate my point that these forks only served to dilute the whole by creating multiple WEAK versions of SBA. potteryhouse at LEAST is trying to create ONE functioning version of SBA by bringing together features from these MANY forks.. If you are looking to contribute to the SBA landscape, why continue development on one of these WEAK A$$ED half supported (NON SUPPORTED) forks?? If you have enhancements that allow EP4 to work with SBA (which I THINK is what you are saying you have been working on) then add those to the effort potteryhouse has put into SBA because in MY OPINION he's trying to improve the clusterf*ck wasteland that SBA had become..

IJS