How do you make addons work in BC?

[Gorramit]

Since they have now opened the PTR I noticed that my much needed MoveAnything isn't even enabled.

http://ui.worldofwar.net/ui.php?id=712

How do you change it to work? (it works fine in "normal" wow)

(I need this to be able to read much of the text in the game)

[VgerAN]

It's possible that you can just open the MoveAnything.toc file in a text editor (such as Notepad) and replace the five-digit number at the top with "20000". That will at least allow WoW to load it. But, it's also pretty likely that the mod is broken, at least a little, in 2.0; just about every mod is affected in some way. Those are changes that you'll need to wait for the mod author to make.

[Gorramit]

Yeah, it seems the problem is that they have simply blocked the usage of addons on the test server at the moment.

[VgerAN]

TBC beta-compatible addons work just fine on the 2.0 PTRs. I updated my own mods to work on the PTR last night, and picked up a couple other beta-compatible mods to try them out. Mods aren't "blocked" on the PTR.

[Gorramit]

No reason to put blocked in "".
People have said they were blocked originally, and since it says "Incompatible" instead out of date, it was logical to assume they were. However just changing the version number to 22222 did make it start.

Of course then there are the "attempt to call a table value" errors, but thats a different kettle of fish.

[VgerAN]

Yup. Some—probably not many—mods will work just by changing the version number to >= 20000. Others will need an update from the author (or another developer) to fix the kind of issues you're most likely to see in those horrid boxes with the red text.

[Lezwyn]

Wasn't there a new version of the mod programming language standard now? I would guess that if it doesn't support the old versions anymore there surely will be lots of errors even from very small changes.