[KuraFire]

Originally Posted by Natch

Statement: I have already applied a number of hacks to my vB3 RC2 board (/me, vBindex RC3, and a couple of others).

Questions:
1. Will I be able to easily (or not so easily) insert these to the HTL ?
2. Will the HTL manage to detect hacks already installed (if so, w00t) ?
3. Will the HTL be able to say "these changes have been made to the default, please create a new 'hack' entry, and assign these changes to their appropraite hacks" (more likely than 2 above) ?

PS. Great job - a much-needed addon

Answers:

1) you can manually recreate them into the HTL. As long as you have the file- and template edits, and any further hack data, you can quite easily input that data into the HTL. However, keep in mind the chance that the Hack author might be releasing his hack as an HTL-compatible hack, and his .htl installer might contain more data than yours (which is likely - think about the automated phrases and templates and settings processes);
2) The HTL can't detect whether any hacks are installed. To do so, it would have had to do a very intricate diff-check routine, which is just not worth the processing power (nor effort to write). It also cannot possibly detect what database changes you've made on your DB compared to a stock vB3 install.
3) uhm.. not sure if I get you entirely, but from what I think you mean, then no. It can do some rudimentary version checking for Hack version and vB version, and before installation starts it will do that for you so that you'll be aware of that. But that's more or less the extent of it...