Libraries?

[Zabuza FlameCaller]

I've used Mods for some time now, but I'm starting to notice an ever increasing lag caused by them (unload one nothing changes, unload all... heaven).
Now I've started looking for Ace2 alternatives since I've heard that by using shared libraries the memory use is significantly lower.
Now come's my question; how do I make addon's use the same library in another folder like most pre-made UI's do?

[Krulle]

I've used Mods for some time now, but I'm starting to notice an ever increasing lag caused by them (unload one nothing changes, unload all... heaven).
Now I've started looking for Ace2 alternatives since I've heard that by using shared libraries the memory use is significantly lower.
Now come's my question; how do I make addon's use the same library in another folder like most pre-made UI's do?

First thing you'll need to do is to get !!!StandaloneLibraries from www.wowace.com/files and unzip it into your interface/addons directory. Then, start the install.bat file in the newly created !!!StandaloneLibraries folder. This will create all the folders needed for all the different libraries available in Ace2.

Now you'll want to get WowaceUpdater from www.wowace.com. Unfortunately, I can't provide a link right now since they're running the low-bandwidth version due to post-patch madness, but once it clears up you can do a search for it from the main page, or just google it.

Anyway, once you have that, open it up and go to Edit -> Preferences. Make sure DeleteBeforeExtracting is set to True (this will delete the addon folder in interface/addons before extracting, good since some addons occasionally break due to changes in file structure) , and close the settings. Now click Edit -> Mark installed addons, and then File -> Install/Update marked addons -> Without Externals. This will make the updater automatically download all the libraries available, and update any existing Ace2 addons. Choosing Without Externals also makes your addons use the standalone libraries instead of embedded ones, thus decreasing loading time when logging in by a small amount.

There's one way to do it without the WowaceUpdater. And that's manually downloading every library available in www.wowace.com/files. But that's just masochistic ;)

Oh, and excuse the wall of text.

[Zabuza FlameCaller]

Thanks for the clear answer, I'm not to happy with this automatic updating (bad memories iof cosmos back in the days :S) but I'll try it out once.