5.0 beta

[Dan Stillman]

Zotero 5.0 Beta is now available for testing:

https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/59829/

Thanks to the folks who provided feedback during the alpha period.

[Emiliano Heyns]

Do you know of any plugins of moderate complexity that are working for 5.0? I see Zotfile is making progress, but I'd prefer to look at something simpler if it exists.

[Will S]

I'm not sure if they have what you are looking for, but here is what I did for Zutilo and Lyz:

https://github.com/willsALMANJ/Zutilo/commit/93ed183cdda06387ad26bc82a2cf31ba483b97c1
https://github.com/willsALMANJ/Zutilo/compare/7a917...9db8e99cc2306b32ff612ca47fef57d0fdabd8db

https://github.com/willsALMANJ/lyz/commit/06da469797e689b6385827c1f7a20c5534556af1

[Emiliano Heyns]

Super thanks! Does this mean that Zutilo master works on both 4.0 and 5.0 BTW? 

[Ephrim Khong]

Dan, what timeline do you have in mind for the final release of 5.0?

Thanks
- Eph

[Will S]

On Sunday, June 12, 2016 at 7:44:08 AM UTC-4, Emiliano Heyns wrote:

Super thanks! Does this mean that Zutilo master works on both 4.0 and 5.0 BTW? 

Yes, both Zutilo and Lyz masters work on both 4.0 and 5.0. I wanted upgrading from 4.0 to 5.0 without them breaking, so that seemed the easiest way. Doing this required making the code fairly ugly, but it is all using if statements with Zotero.version, so it should be easy to go back and pull out 4.0 support later on. Also, it was fairly easy to support both in Zutilo because most of its functionality is menu items or shortcuts that run one Zotero command at the end, so mostly I could just wrap that final asynchronous command in "Zotero.Promise.coroutine(function* () {<code>})()" without too much duplication of code. Lyz uses Zotero.DB to store its data so it had calls that became asynchronous throughout its functions. Since I only maintain Lyz and don't actively develop new features for it, I just added Zotero.version if statements and copied and pasted entire functions inside of Zotero.Promise.coroutine() calls and made changes inside (adding "yield", changing "query" to "queryAsync", and some other minor changes).

[Emiliano Heyns]

What BBT does has become a little more involved than that... ah well, it's not like I had plans for the summer.