How about halfway happy. Which is more happy then I'd be with nothing. I enjoy a community that shares code. Sharing is caring. I'm agree that stuff on VIPM.IO should have a bit more polish. But a random forum post doesn't require the test and rigor of a commercial product.
I believe this has been reported to LV R&D as Bug 2561077. It is scheduled to be fixed in the LabVIEW 2024 Q1 release, and they are also researching whether or not to include the fix in a patch to LabVIEW 2023 Q3.
This sounds like the perfect candiate for that meme of Orange County Choppers where the dad and the son are yelling at each other:
Son: JUST RELEASE IT ALREADY
Dad: ITS NOT PERFECT
Son: NOBODY WILL GET TO SEE IT OTHERWISE
Dad: I DONT CARE
My 1 cents into the issue. The whole spirit of modern software dev is just to hang your dirty laundry out to dry for anyone to inspect. I think this is a change for the good.
@ShaunR I think you have very little chance of finding someone to maintain (I presume) some very old code , in a state they have never seen, likely with heaps of strings attached, in a super niche area of interest.
I agree with Hooovahh, a couple of times I was happy to find some unfinished project to use as a starting point (toml, zeromq, rabbitmq, redis)
I also respect your opinion, not wanting to publish in your name some half-finished project that you do not want to support is understandable.
I find this project interesting but I don't do much UI stuff these days.
Still I think it would be cool if somehow, this could be published.