Quote Originally Posted by DivaVocals View Post
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
Sorry for the "delayed" response, but no argument from me. :) I actually halted some development because I didn't want to make a bigger mess of things. The recent developer of ep4 has indicated that a zc ready version would be coming "soon" and with all the variations of sba I wanted to focus on the aspect of sba/ep that seemed most valuable. Updating in stock quantities of sba tracked products. That task was done for a particularly lain out sba table.

Having the next suggested version of sba I should be able to look at the tables used there and make the mods to accomodate restock of existing sba tracked products. And do so without losing existing functionality, but I plan on providing a note to guide towards the "preferred" sba.

SBA, while probably one of the most useful of setups for an online store, HAS unfortunately been ##############ized it certainly also unfortunately can be one of the more complex plugins because of how many different facits that are affected by it/it affects. I'm looking to finish some touchups to another plugin I am merging with a convenient tool which also needs to have/get an autoinstaller tied to it and then I'll switch back over to the improvements for SBA/EP4 through potteryhouse's version. That part shouldn't be as difficult after I play with his version a little.