I've been reading through all the discussions (and debate?) about the up coming vB 3.5 release and was wondering what others were planning on doing to take advantage of the new hook and plug system? The process proposes certainly seems wonderful with not having to redo all those file edits to upgrade vB, possibly breaking hacks in the process, but to take full advantage of it it requires the hacks to be updated. I have over 150 hacks on my board at this point with many of the original authors now AWOL so it's unlikely they will be updated in my lifetime. I'm faced with either doing without any outdated hacks to use the hook system and treat the upgrade in the same way as changing from vB2 > vB3 or trying to hack in the ones that still work and being faced with the same issue as before for the next upgrade only at a lesser level. For those that will upgrade... what is your plan to handle it? Will you hold out for only vB3.5 compliant hacks or redo your file edits yet again? I have some good stuff on my boards now that I'd hate to loose but if I edit files I'll be right back to the same old-same old for the next update yet again.
05-23-2005, 09:08 PM
Hacking strategies for VB 3.5?
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