old mod life support

Posted: Sat Nov 08, 2008 11:30 am

The RN developer team rocks my cms universe. But, they can't do everything and keeping our core code simply sweet and secure is their priority.

What do the rest of us do about our old phpnuke scripts, not patched, not compliant, not sustainable in their current condition? There are probably many scripts, well loved by their users, yet those scripts have dropped off the desks of their authors. Now what? How do we share with the purpose of fixing them?

Thanks for setting up these forums Raven ... I hope we can find some life support for some old mods.

Posted: Sat Nov 08, 2008 12:46 pm

I can tell you that anything we do on the development team that will cause problems with older scripts is discussed extensively before a decision is made to proceed. From my personal point of view almost TOO extensively. The "recent" decision to comment out the sql_layer was discussed over the course of several recent releases ... although it has been enlightening to see how many older scripts are still lying around.

It seems to me that the approach of posting any issues in the forums and having the community participate in the fix process is the most rational way to go. The inclusion of sql_layer produced overhead for EVERY USER on EVERY PAGE load because it was part of mainfile. So everyone was paying all the time for the relatively few people who had scripts that used it. That's my 2 cents on this issue.

Posted: Wed Nov 12, 2008 10:41 am

For sure, we must always move forward with the core code evolution, slowly. And RavenNuke is doing just fine, imho.

But, the mod junkie in me has quite a few old mods requiring some prognosis for a future RN. Maybe it works, but maybe it's hopeless.

Let's triage some abandoned scripts through a safe and kissy (keeping it simply sweet) RavenNuke lens. What are the faults? Can the faults be fixed/converted (all parts a-z)? If so, let's test it!

Also, for those of us on a learning curve, updating and fixing scripts is helpful way to maybe writing original scripts with standards.