weekly update
Another week (well, not quite from my last update, but I thought I’d better get back on track…) in ZenMagick land and without fixing regressions I haven’t done anything on ZenMagick itself.
It’s good to have some paid work for a change and recently things have been getting better a bit, so I can’t complain.
The theme migration is progressing quite well and the work has turned up a few more bugs in the current code, so the payoff is twofold 
Once the migration is complete we’ll hopefully have a proper release within a couple weeks. After that, there is more work on integrating vBulletin with ZenMagick. I am still not quite sure about how much of that can be released under the GPL, but at least the ZenMagick side should be good to release!
I have decided that the integration of Savant will have to wait until the next release. There is already enough new stuff in 0.9.7. Things are almost ready to go, though. I finally managed to get things working with a vanilla Savant version, although I wrote another compress script to pack everything into a single file, same as for creole, simpletest and other 3rd part APIs that are used in ZenMagick and plugins.
The main reason to wait is actually that most view classes need to change (some cleanup is coming up anyway, though) and that’s something I do not have the time for right now.
tada, mano
Hi Mano,
Thanks for the regular updates! I like to read about what your latest developments are with zenmagick. I am just getting started with it on a new project and am loving it, although with the newest version about to come out I think I will wait to do any more until it’s released. I am sure that I and many others will have a lot of questions, have you thought about installing a forum on the main zenmagick site instead of/as well as on sourceforge?
What you have accomplished on your own is simply amazing, and my hat is off to you. Please keep up the great work and I hope that other coders start contributing to help you develop this into ever greater abilities. Thank you!
Comment by matt w — September 13, 2009 @ 5:27 am
I’ve had a think about a dedicated forum and others have suggested too, but so far with the sourceforge forum it didn’t seem necessary.
It could well be that there would be more posts on a separate forum, but there are limits to what I can do. Unless the volume on sourceforge increases a bit I feel that there is better use for my (limited) time.
If there was someone reliable willing to maintain/moderate a forum I’d be more than happy to give that go, though
Comment by DerManoMann — September 13, 2009 @ 9:54 pm