hi,
sorry,this is the second time iam asking the saim question,
but i have sended A private message to alex 5 day's ago with no respons yet !
i would like to know when the beta will be ready?
thanks and regards
faisal

No news.

They hit a problem, and have been working on it. Without seeing the code, I gather it's part of the admin/access routines, and you know that they want all that working for this release.

I did see the spider (beta) code, and if any of that is in the new release, as far as interfaces go, it will be awesome and worth the wait.

I might be out of place, but don't expect the same plain old interface and features, from snippets I've seen over the past months, this is _really_ a new release -- not just excuses for the delays.

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i thought the spider was it's own script... the gossamer spider..

that was awesome.. i saw the code too.. i even had it working on my site.. in about 1 hour.. my 50 meg quota got filled up (spidering eliot's site.. just to test it)... that is when i deleted the spider :) works great..

yes.. pugdog.. i beleive the admin will take on a different look.. after seeing the gossamer mail admin.. i have a feeling there will be some changes.. Gossamer Threads itself has changed much since Links 1.0.. with all the help alex is getting from his employees.. it seems more features and improvements have been made to all the scripts..

anyways.. Links SQL v1.11 is still pretty good.. although I had to spend quite awhile fixing up the multiple selection, checkboxes in the admin.. (they don't work.. gets the first value only).. i am almost done with one of the 3 projects i have been doing for awhile now.. i even paid a friend to make sure i don't stop working :)..

Jerry Su

hi pugdog ,
yes,it seam's that they are stuck with the improving of the admin script,plus the new category management ,as what alex told in the Announcements forum,
and i wish it worth the waiting becouse iam hanging around here in these forums from more then 2 monthes waiting..for the new version ,
and by the way about the spider,it seam's that you and jerrysu liked it ,but while ago i asked alex about it,and he said :
It was released as a beta to a couple people, however there were many issues with it. It used too many resources to be practical -- it was really only useful on dedicateds. We scratched it and have started a new one using our new module set. Except to see it around middle to end of August
in this thread : http://www.gossamer-threads.com/p/95554
so,what do you think guys?

Both Jerry and pugdog are on dedicated servers, so it does work well for them. In terms of using it with virtual account, I don't think it will work very well...However, Gossamer Threads does provide services to create the rdf dump files that you can download and use in your directory.

My understanding is that the beta version of the spider script does suck up a lot of server resources (CPU, Memory, etc.).

Regards,

Eliot Lee

thanks Eliot ,
i just get it ,
hope they release them together,both (spider+SQLlinks)at the saim time,this will really worth our waiting .

The spider was very resource intensive. Let's say, it was brute-force scripting. But what was most impressive was the interface/management features, not the spidering code behind it.

I would have liked to see incremental releases of Links, with the new interfaces, bug fixes, new modules, etc. rather than one massive re-release.

The plan seems to be to make all the programs use the same engines, modules, and interfaces, and it's just the front-end .cgi scripts that will actually be different. When that happens, upgrades would really be simpler, since upgrading one program, automatically upgrades them all.

Features and changes to the programs would be done mainly in the 'scripts'not in he modules or engines.

Pretty much that is how Links SQL works now, with 90%+ of the changes made to the .cgi files, and the two interface .pm files (Links.pm and HTML_Templates.pm), with no real changes needed to the core routines in the other.pm files.

If the effort is taken further, then virtually all changes/mods/customizations would be through the interface files, not any of the core/library files.

This makes upgrades easier, since the 'functionality' is in the modules that are essentially the same from site to site, but the look/feel is in the other files which are mostly site-specific.

If the "plug-in" concept is finished, then mods/upgrades could all be plug-in, rather than code-altering changes. You add them to a plug-ins directory, and they interact with the other scripts and the databases automatically.

What's been going on, is not only a standard 'upgrade' of adding features, and fixing bugs, but a total rework of the logic to allow for future expansion, upgrade and maintennance.

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