WowAce

It looks like compatibility with oUF 1.6 also made it work in MoP with no additional changes. Now I just need to finish the buffs & combo points......

I thought about this more, party-pet and party-target were really the hardest frames to do because of their special positioning, and the header needing special instructions on how to position them in combat. (And because I threw out an entire implementation of party-pet when I realized I was fighting oUF to make it work and would regret it later.) Anything more is easy. So I'll have every type of unit frame.

Well unit frames are unit frames; they all have just about the same feature set. Mimicking random extra things from X-Perl would depend on feedback. And I feel like I have to include raid frames, because every other unit frames mod does.

I'm more interested in adapting the frames towards pixel-perfect layouts, and interoperability with different oUF plugins, than just copying features.

I think I know why they do it; I just don't know whether I agree it's necessary and not an overreaction. The authors want to be able to send takedown notices if someone mirrors Curse or WoWInterface, and tries to get users to download there instead. They say third party distributions are often modified or outdated, and cause support issues, or give the addon a bad name.

That's fine, although the way I did layouts is so different I'm not sure how much will be useful. The stuff in the "elements" folder is more reusable, and actually I'll just go put MIT licenses in all of those now because I always intended them that way.

I did All Rights Reserved on the project because like every single unit frames addon does it, and I figured the authors have a reason. I don't know enough about the community to know whether there's some purpose to it or not.

That's great to hear about DBM. I was worried MoP might start off without raid mods updated, like what happened in Cata, which is a nightmare for me because friends and my guild all nag me to write things for them... (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻ Knowing that's taken care of makes it easier to look forward to the expansion.

This oUF-that-looks-like-Perl thing is something I've wanted to do forever, but in WotLK I didn't know how to make addons, and in Cata it never seemed important because you and some people were maintaining X-Perl. But I've always wanted to have something smaller and more modern, and now I finally have time. I want it to be ready and usable by MoP, so I can level and do dungeons without worrying about my unit frames breaking!

I'd like to go farther, and make "advanced" layouts that are specified in terms of real pixels, instead of just scaling smaller frames down from 100%. Probably not in time for MoP though.

Wow, that has a lot of stuff done in it. I've mostly been working on a layout function that's data-driven, and can redo the whole frame without reloading if the config is changed; I want the user to be able to see changes. When I get frustrated with it, I add something like a PvP icon or mob race, then go back to it. I'll see if I can't finally upload something workable tomorrow.