We have a few NeoLemmix EXEs around by authors that are either no longer active in the community (or at least haven't been active for a while), or are active but have no interest in maintaining their older packs. (There's also some that haven't been upgraded yet, but in all likelihood the author will once they get a chance to do so; those are not the focus of this topic.)
I'm wondering - what's the community consensus on what should be done about these packs? The way I see it, the options are:
1. I upgrade them to NXPs myself, and host the upgraded versions on NeoLemmix.com
2. I list these packs seperately from those that have been upgraded, with a note about their status as older version packs. This option should probably wait until most packs are upgraded (or the number of new packs, which are already NXPs from the start, is greater).
3. I create a tool which extracts data from older EXEs, to allow end-users to convert them to NXPs
4. Simply leaving them as-is
I like the sound of Option 3, as it allows any pack to be NXP-ized for people to use, without anyone needing to host modified versions of other people's content (even though the modification would merely be a format shift). However, this does mean an extra tool to download, and extra steps when using an old pack, unless one is willing to simply play it on the old version (in which case they can run the EXE directly).
Any input here?