Monty, > I thought you might be releasing the package with the mods > even though it doesn't solve all the sp2 problems, but it > takes care of the main one.
I'm just being cautious. I've worked on and off on this hosting code for about a month, and I barely understand what's going on with all the OLE goo. DQSD as-is has been built during the course of 3-4 years by many of you, and it's been tested forever. Rather than pushing it out too early, I think we should go by the original plan and release 3.1.9 as a service release, fixing lots of bugs, and then we work through the issues with custom hosting collectively. Also, with a major release, I think we could and should attack the following issues (in no particular order): - Security consciousness - don't require write permissions in Program Files directory - Being multi-user friendly - per-user settings, per-user localsearches, etc. - Skinning/theming - Deskbands can get a notification when the Windows theme changes - if we can build an automatic mapper there we can actually change the current DQSD skin on-the-fly. - SP2-hostile techniques, like the help window. I'm sure it can be done easier, (and possibly with better performance) within the limitations posed by SP2 - Loader performance - I think there are things we can do to improve the stuff going on there - Keyboard hook - ideally get rid of it, but if we need it, make sure it can be installed multiple times without the unfriendly message box - Search repository on-line - a friend of mine actually asked for this today - I think it's a great idea with a browsable and/or searchable directory of searches so that people can just click and install from there. Independently available searches is actually the greatest advantage we have over the commercial toolbars for non-coder end-users, IMO So I want to hold the good stuff back for a while longer... :) Kim ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/ _______________________________________________ Archive: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dqsd-devel
