Progress on slimserver 7.0 ?

[erland]

How is the progess on slimserver 7.0 ?

Is most of the functionality already implemented or is there still a lot of work left ?

How far away is the 7.0 release date ?
Are we talking about maybe 3 months, 6 months, a year or 2 years ?

I know I am not going to get an official statement on a release date, I just want a guess from someone that knows a bit more than me about the current status and whats left to do.

I'm asking this because I would like to hold on making the neccesary changes to my plugins until the last minute, but I feel that it would be a good idea to start maybe 1-3 months before the release to make sure the plugins are ready to use with 7.0 at the release date. The reason I want to do the work as late as possible is because the changes feels to big to provide a plugin version compatible with both a 6.5 and 7.0. I would also like to keep providing new functions for 6.5 as long as 6.5 is the latest official release, mostly because I will probably be using 6.5 in my own living room until 7.0 is officially released.

[mherger]

> How far away is the 7.0 release date ?
> Are we talking about maybe 3 months, 6 months, a year or 2 years ?

SlimDevices usually had a new product for every christmas. I'd therefore
guess we have a maximum of 9 months left ;-)

> I'm asking this because I would like to hold on making the neccesary
> changes to my plugins until the last minute, but I feel that it would
> be a good idea to start maybe 1-3 months before the release to make
> sure the plugins are ready to use with 7.0 at the release date.

I'd recommend you start with one plugin to get a feeling for the changes.
As the interface might change over the next weeks/months you can play with
this one sample plugin.

> reason I want to do the work as late as possible is because the changes
> feels to big to provide a plugin version compatible with both a 6.5 and
> 7.0.

That's right. But while the changes to the settings related code may
require quite some work, the plugin's main code doesn't need that much
changes. Last night I migrated AlbumReview (less settings) and
StringEditor in well less than 1 hour. Functionality isn't touched at all.
It's mainly the initialization code which is re-organized.

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Michael

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