Just imported Shapes to Unity 2019.4 - getting tons of packate-related compiler errors (similar to existing bug, but existing solution not available) -- but! solution found, documentation update needed.

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I just downloaded and imported Shapes 3.2.3 into Unity 2019.4.19f1 and am unable to run any of the scenes under Samples. It's throwing a bunch of errors like: "Library\PackageCache\com.unity.package-manager-ui@2.0.13\Editor\AssemblyInfo.cs(7,12): error CS0246: The type or namespace name 'UxmlNamespacePrefixAttribute' could not be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)"

I see that this may be the same as a bug that's been reported before (https://shapes.userecho.com/en/communities/1/topics/38-installation-error-unity-20193), but the solution suggested for that one doesn't seem to apply: that solution was to delete the "Package Manager UI package." However, I don't see this in the Package Manager, and from the Unity online docs (https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/upm-errors.html) it shouldn't be there any longer: 
"As of 2019.3, your manifest.json file should not contain any references to the com.unity.package-manager-ui package." 

Just to be certain, I went to the manifest file and found this line:

"com.unity.package-manager-ui": "2.0.13",


Which I then deleted (per the Unity documentation cited above). However it made no difference: I restarted Unity, re-imported Shapes, and found the same errors.

HOWEVER: I then went back one more time, deleting that line from the manifest file once again, and this time when the popup saying "This Unity Package has Package Manager dependencies", I chose "Skip" instead of  "Install/Upgrade"

... and now it appears to work. 

So really, I think what's probably needed here is an update to the Shapes documentation, especially the Quick Start guide, so people don't get stopped by this upon install.

Reporting a bug? please specify Unity version:
2019.4.19f1
Reporting a bug? please specify Shapes version:
3.2.3
Reporting a bug? please specify Render Pipeline:
Built-in render pipeline
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Freya Holmér creator
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so it seems like the solution is to just not use the asset store upload tool package dependency checker whatsoever because it's completely broken and unusable :')
I'll just do that for the next version~

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Freya Holmér creator

yeah this is a nightmare because for some reason Unity auto-includes package manager UI (which doesn't exist in newer versions of Unity and leads to the errors you describe) along with other packages that Shapes doesn't have any dependencies on. and I explicitly only have TMP in my manifest. I'll ask around and see if there's a solution

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Freya Holmér creator
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so it seems like the solution is to just not use the asset store upload tool package dependency checker whatsoever because it's completely broken and unusable :')
I'll just do that for the next version~