Originally Posted by dig81
It almost always failed to do a complete update
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I've used WowMatrix for over a year and have very rarely had problems. When I did have problems, I went to the addons hosting site and downloaded and still had the same problem (reasonsable since Wowmatrix pulled the addon from that site). I used WowAceUpdater before that and had frequent problems (addons throwing errors in-game). I read that WowAceUpdater would install Beta and Alpha versions of addons. Don't know if that is true or not.
When I first installed the Curse updater (last week) I had a lot of problems. After messing with it for a few hours I found the problems were with the addons themselves not the Curse updater. My biggest Curse related problem was that it didn't always recognize my addons or picked the wrong addon even though Curse hosted the correct addon. Once I uninstalled my version of the addon and installed from the Curse Updater, that problem went away.
As far as WowMatrix modifying addons. I don't know what it did originally, but now all I see is that it adds one file to the addon's top folder. That's all the difference I see.
A lot of people are saying Wowmatrix didn't work, messed up addons, modified authors code, etc. I've had more problems with WowAceupdater messing up addons than I have with Wowmatrix. I have not used Curse Updater enough to give it a fair review.
Now the reason for this post. Wowmatrix was not the evil updater some think. Let's face it, enough people were using it that Curse and Wowinterface had to block it. Wowmatrix must have been working for enough people that it caused a financial problem for Curse and Wowinterface. If you don't like how Wowmtrix operated that fine, but don't attack the quality of the product they provided. I'm not saying you didn't have problems. I'm saying their software worked for a lot of people.
One last note. I've switched over to Curse updater. I'm doing the same thing now that I did when I switched to Wowmatrix: if an addon is not supported by Curse Updater, I'm replacing it with one that is. Here are the only exceptions: Carbonite (currently hosted on Wowinterface and it's own site), LightHeaded (hosted on Wowinterface), Zygor Guides (hosted only on their site; currently an add that I had to buy). The longer it takes Wowinterface to get their updater to work, the less likely it will be that I will use Wowinterface. If the Curse Updater and the Wowinterface updater won't co-exist peacefully, I will only use one (probably Curse). I'm also toying with the idea of marking all of my addons as a "favorite" with Curse and Wowinterface, and then updating them myself.