babystep release
I’ve been pondering whether to have another release before Christmas for a while now and I think it would be a good idea. As far as releases go this is going to be a pretty minor one.
I spend a some time fixing some small things that croped up and als refactored a lot defines away (making them consts in service classes mostly). Some theme related defines about directory names got removed completely as they do not really change a lot (and shouldn’t either).
On the plus side there are going to be two new plugins. Firstly, the already annourced form handler and also the code I’ve been using on the demo store to switch themes.
There is also some new code in the form of new cache implementations and also a new ZMDatabase implementation using PDO.
The only real downside is that I’ve touched every single plugin. That in itself is probably not a bad thing, however the sourceforce file release interface requires to set platform and file type for each separately and that is a real pain.
Have you seen the post about ZC 2.0? I wonder how this will affect ZM?
http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showthread.php?t=116018
Comment by lankeeyankee — December 21, 2008 @ 1:19 am
Yeah, I wonder myself
As I said in a previous comment, there is a lot of overlap between ZenMagick and the feature list of Zen Cart 2.0. We’ll see how that goes and how big the changes really are.
If anything, my work might at least have inspired some of the changes. So even if no actual ZenMagick code went into Zen Cart 2.0 some of the ideas might have.
I will have to evaluate the release once it is there. Presumably a lot of work for me to get ZM integrated again.
On the other hand some really good news, because if the new version is using a lot more proper classes it might be much easier to integrate that before.
Seeing that themes will have to be redone and mods as well it could take some time before that version will gain momentum though.
Comment by DerManoMann — January 5, 2009 @ 9:38 pm