[ Closed ] Announcing: PunMod beta v0.9.2 (Page 2 of 3)

done,

http://www.mindplay.dk/temp/punmod094.zip

just the prefix thing for now, let me know how that works for you...

I hope someone is, this is something that deserves a lot of support.

neat!

I've been talking to Kristoffer Jansson (punres.org) and hopefully we'll work together at some point and integrate PunMod with his site - possibly with a liveupdate feature and integration with PunBB's administration system, time will tell how far we get ... at the moment I'm not doing much, since my right hand is broken and typing takes forever, but after new year, hopefully I'll find some time to finish what I've started

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I'm still here

Major changes have been made to PunMod since the last release - it now works with a transparent backup system, which means it starts out by archiving your whole PunBB installation to a single backup file, from which it restore dynamically; if you don't understand what this means, it basically means you can now add/remove sourcecode changes fully dynamically, e.g. add/remove mods as you please, or undo all mod changes and revert to your original PunBB installation.

However, major work lies ahead - one of the next things I have to do, is of course test and integrate it with PunBB v1.2.

But there is also a major challenge in making database commands which can fully support both install and uninstall.

What this will probably mean, is that commands like ##SQL and ##RUN will have to be dropped. This may sound pretty drastic, but both are virtually impossible to undo, and therefore can't possibly be properly supported. Instead, the ##ADD command will be replace with something more flexible, allowing for table/column/index creation with automatic undo.

Also done is a custom archive format support library (using zlib), currently only used for backup/restore, but which will be used for single-file mod support. Also, subfolders under the punmods folder is supported now, so you can already organize mods and their dependency files more neatly - not that this will be necessary really, once single file "mod archives" are fully supported.

Anyways, that's the status at the moment.

I'll put up a newer version for testing the new improvements at your request.

Here's the current version:

http://www.mindplay.dk/temp/punmod095b2.zip

Be sure to test this version on a test installation of PunBB - please test at your own risk.

Be sure to read the instructions on the pages, in order to fully understand what's going on - the backup/restore system is a major change from the way previous versions worked, and has not been tested extensively yet, so be careful please.

The first thing you should do, is perform a backup, and then a restore, to verify that the restore operation is working and has all the permissions it needs to complete - once you've seen both backup and restore working, it should be safe to try applying the included mods; none of the included mods make any database modifications, only source code changes. The ##SQL and ##RUN commands are still supported at the moment, but will almost certainly be deprecated.

Important: you're welcome to test this on PunBB v1.2 if you like, but most likely the mods supplied with this distribution will work for v1.1.x only, because of the extensive changes in the v1.2 source code. PunMod has not yet been tested on v1.2.

Lastly, to reiterate: test at your own risk

would probably be best since it allows for all situations

I agree with both adding "UNSQL" and removing the RUN command. Good ideas both of them.

sorry i been a bit busy so i havent tested yet but it sounds great i'll try it this weekend also i noticed - http://punbb.org/forums/viewtopic.php?id=5779

I'm not sure what use that would be? - it operates on entire lines only, you can't replace substrings within lines.

I could support this of course, but it might be risky - what if certain lines in newer versions contain that particular data you were searching for, but it's something you DON'T want replaced? All sorts of random things could happen if we allowed something like this ... also, there's no guarantee that mod authors would be careful enough to ensure that they don't accidentally replace stuff in five different places when they were trying to replace something in just two places.

I think I prefer the search to be as explicit as possible - it's the safest way to avoid carelessness/lazyness from the mod developers ... a search and replace command could really cause havoc.

i just tryed this and it dont work for punbb 1.2.1 could you up date it please.

okay, I've lost interest in this project, and I just don't have enough spare time to invest in this now...

I've asked Rickard if he wanted to take over and make PunMod an official component of PunBB, but he doesn't have the time either.

so I'm looking for someone to adopt the project - if you're interested, send me an email, and I'll provide the latest version of the source code. It's fairly well structured and commented, so it shouldn't be too much work to figure it out - and I'll of course be happy to answer questions and provide help to get you started.

so... any takers?