The alpha test customers have had vB5 and the new extension system doco for a while now.
Some mods have been written.
As vB5 is now public it can be said:
a) The new extension system is 100% OO and nothing like the plugin system in vB4
b) there are new template hooks that can call the API
c) The SQL I/O is now abstracted and is different, so presumably other databases can be used besides MYSQL
d) It will take a fair time for add-ons to catch up, the structure of vB5 is different and makes a lot of add-ons redundant, but creates a need for new ones
e) The new system has an auto install feature
There is a bit of learning curve ahead for all of us.
vB5 is early beta and needs a lot of work to be production ready.
Be patient!
Kym
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