Hi Michael, > How will the new GUI affect packages written to work within the > current system?
Sames as before. You can install PKGs through the GUI. Either from file, from an URL or from NewLinQ. However: BlueOnyx with that new GUI are entirely new "platforms". Existing platforms so far are 5106R, 5107R and 5108R. When BlueOnyx with the new GUI gets released, the existing list of platforms gets expanded by the two new platforms 5207R and 5208R. Which means that you can only install PKGs there that were developed for the platform in question. The old and the new GUI generally do things in the same way, but the PHP GUI pages and the XML files for the menu structure are different and not compatible. They're even residing in different directories, the URL structure is different, there is no frameset, no JavaScripts that span over multiple frames either. Input validation works different, register globals is (finally!) turned off and a whole squeaky bit of nuts and bolts has been replaced, polished up or been rewritten from scratch. All in all this is a hell of a lot more than simple cosmetics. So far around 1200 hours went into the new GUI project and it's only about 70% done. About one of the last obstacles I'll takle (once the GUI itself is done) is to restructure our RPM and PKG building process. Long term goal is that almost all of the BlueOnyx modules are universal. So they will work anywhere and contain the GUI pages and menu XML files for both the old and new platforms. That makes future code maintenance a lot easier. This will then also allow us to create PKGs that contain GUI elements for similar platforms. Therefore a lot of future PKGs will be for 5107R/5207R and 5108R/5208R at the same time, because they contain the GUI elements for both. If you have a PKG that's (so far) only for 5107R or 5108R, then it will only install on these platforms, but not the new ones. However: For those clients who have an ongoing maintenance agreement, PKGs they had purchased in the past for the old platforms will be made available for 5207R and 5208R as well. -- With best regards Michael Stauber _______________________________________________ Blueonyx mailing list Blueonyx@mail.blueonyx.it http://mail.blueonyx.it/mailman/listinfo/blueonyx