[Marco van Herwaarden]

Well HIS is more like a SDK for making things a bit easier for the coder of a hack. And as such you shouldn't even need to mention it on your hack page. But since it is good practise to give credits to those who deserve them (link in this case) you mention them.

Nobody give you details on what installer they are packaging with for example Windows software.

I think coders should decide on which way they want to go, and choose a common standard that would be enough for most hacks. If people installing those hacks get used to the userinterface, the whole product (vB + hacks) will seem more coherent. Coders could decide to improve an existing installer or make together a new one.

I also started writing an installer (and coders SDK to create install files for this) myself. I tried to make an installer that would only need a 1 XML file for a hack to install, and the installer could optionally also generate a text file out of this xml for manual installation if user choose this. Never finished that, but still got everything. When i started that i never visited this board, or any other boards where people where discussing hacking, so i never knew what people actually wanted in installers. Now i see that people tend to distrust installers and HIS is just a beauty in it's simplisety and maybe because of that accepted.