[CaptainT]

Hi everyone,

I couldn't find information on this, so if there is, kindly share a link, please.

I am looking to discontinue/EoL old versions of the iplayerwww add-on in the krypton and helix branches. In my opinion, they can stay there "as is", but are no longer supported. What is the recommended way of flagging an add-on accordingly?

Thanks in advance!

[jjd-uk]

I'm not one of the repo maintainers but I believe the only thing available is to set addon as broken, see https://kodi.wiki/view/Addon.xml#%3Cbroken%3E

However that is mainly used if there's been something like an API change which means the addon doesn't work anymore, or the addon has been superceded by a new addon. I'm not exactly sure of user impact of setting broken either so perhaps wait for someone with more knowledge in this area to respond.

[pkscout]

If they aren't actually broken, I would just add something to the description in the addon.xml saying they aren't supported anymore.  Before you do that, I would submit an updated version to one of the newer repositories (probably Matrix unless you love maintaining Python2 and Python3 stuff) with a higher version number.  Once that is merged you can update the older version's addon.xml.

The other option is just to do nothing.  I tell people I only support current and one release back of Kodi, push to repos accordingly, and try to make sure I'm saying that in the various forum threads.