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Originally Posted by BetterRed
And if they can, would FD (Advanced) inherent the features of FD (Basic), or would it replicate them, or would they be removed from FD (Advanced)?
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The point that we are raising is that maintaining, documenting and supporting that Advanced features code is an issue - if noone other than capink is actually using it then it should *not* be part of any public Find Duplicates plugin. If anyone comes to the forums to ask about how to use them or has an issue/bug then if capink isn’t around it is problematic. Time is not free, and trying to provide support for 1-2 users in the world if that is all who use it is not practical. Likewise it is more work for maintainers when it comes time for Qt upgrades etc.
Whether capink chooses to just use that particular version that combines both for as long as they can, or pulls that functionality into their own plugin is entirely up to them. Likewise if capink wants to publish it as a completely separate plugin for as long as they are willing to support it that is their choice too.
As I said to capink it can be difficult to know in advance how popular adding a feature to a plugin may be - are we satisfying a requirement for many people or just creating a headache for ourselves of filling some niche requirement. Certainly I suspect many of the options on Modify ePub for instance fall into the latter category. If these Advanced features are something only capink is using then it makes sense to me to remove them.