Very confused on recent Spout changes.

It has been a couple of weeks since I last used Spout/Spoutcraft. I just tried doing some stuff with it again. When I was gonna use GenericPopup I found that I couldn't import it from the SpoutAPI, I had to get SpoutcraftAPI before I could do that. Later I found out that I need an Addon before I can attach anything to my Popup. So, do I need both a Spout plugin for the server and a Addon for my Spoutcraft? I'm very confused D:

EDIT: I took a look at SpoutPluginAPI and it has what I need, but do I need Spout and/or SpoutPlugin on my server for it to work?

 

You could ask us directly on our thread or forums instead of a separate thread.
The API is only for developers to compile against, same purpose as what the Bukkit jars serve.

SpoutPlugin jars include all the API and is what you put on the server, like how CraftBukkit includes the API inside its jar.

The old addons setup was primarily for doing things that plugins couldn't do such as more intensive rendering and if you wanted the mod for singleplayer only. The majority of the GUI can be done via a server plugin and SpoutPluginAPI.

Being as we are changing things around a bit with the API, the older plugin API is at http://jd.getspout.org/old and the start of our new universal client and server API is at http://jd.getspout.org.