Here’s the slurry of cryptic error messages.
The first line is not too cryptic: when Grasshopper loads the Parakeet plugin it is being asked to load two assemblies with the same name. These are coming from the Parakeet.gha and Parakeet.ghpy files.
In R7 this use of the same assembly name doesn’t matter so Parakeet loads ok. Don’t know what happened in older R8s, but now R8 doesn’t like the same name being used more than once. One for @eirannejad to look at, I suspect.
If you hit Close on those errors you will find Parakeet has partially loaded. The part loaded may give you the tools you need. If not, as a workaround, rename Parakeet.gha to Parakeet.gha.old and restart Rhino, and you’ll get the other part. Of course, if there is functionality that needs both parts loaded simultaneously that functionality won’t work either way.
Hi Jeremy, thanks for pointing that out.
What is strange is that Parakeet never misbehaved before. I didn’t update it or do anything (to my knowledge) that could cause this conflict.
To be honnest, I quit trying to understand how GH plugins are supposed to be managed.
I think that the real problem is that no strict framework has ever been imposed by McNeel for this, and some stuff can be installed by the package manager, others not.
In the last case, it can be just a matter of dropping a plugin folder in the (hopefully) proper folder, and other times there’s an installer…
In French, we would say “c’est la fête du slip”.