[Vtigercrm-developers] Write addons / modules

[David V.]

Hi Prasad and others,

We will base our work on Vtiger 5.0.4 GA.
So if everything goes well the next version of Vtiger will have the plugin
system.

Please post here your requested features for the plugin system.

David V.

On Feb 13, 2008 5:47 AM, Prasad <prasad at vtiger.com> wrote:

> Hi David,
>
> Your efforts of building modules for vtiger and willing to share it with
> community are appreciated.
>
> Please use our vtiger forge (http://forge.vtiger.com) to share your work.
>
> We are very positive on getting such plugin feature into vtiger going
> forward, in that direction we will definitely be looking at your work.
>
> Kindly keep us updated on progress. All the best.
>
> Regards,
> Prasad
> vtiger Team
>
>
> On 2/13/08, David V. <davidv.net at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Prasad,
> >
> > I made 2 modules for Vtiger. We have 4 installations of Vtiger running
> > for differents activities (differents companies).
> >
> > I would have some suggestions on how to implement this plugin system in
> > Vtiger.
> >
> > We also use Joomla a lot and I think they have a very good plugin system
> > and that it would be a good model we can follow.
> >
> > We are actually thinking on releasing the modules we have made to the
> > community, and we are planning the developpement of other open source
> > modules. But we dont want anymore to have to modify Vtiger every time a new
> > version is out.
> >
> > So we were thinking on working in a plugin system first. But we have to
> > be sure that this system would be integrated in futures versions of Vtiger.
> >
> > We think such a plugin system would be a major improvement for Vtiger.
> > It is a real need. But if the core developpers don't have the time to work
> > on it, maybe the community could help.
> >
> > I'm sure a lot of others developpers on this list have the same problem.
> > They want to switch to the latest version of Vtiger but they are thinking
> > about all the changes they will have to make again to the core files.  (If
> > you are a dev reading this thread and you feel concerned please react and
> > tell us what you think).
> >
> > David V.
> >
> > On Feb 12, 2008 4:07 PM, Prasad <prasad at vtiger.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi Gregory,
> > >
> > > At present we don't have a way of plugging the components from forge
> > > into vtiger.
> > > This is surely an area we will target soon. Any suggestion from
> > > community are most welcome.
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > Prasad
> > > vtiger Team
> > >
> > >
> > > On 2/7/08, Gregory Machin <greg at ct-net.org> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Hi
> > > > From what I have seen most of the components on the vtigerforge need
> > > > to
> > > > replace existing files or patch them .. If this don't go as planned
> > > > things break , It also means upgrading can be a problem.. Is there a
> > > > better way of writing components, so that they could me modules that
> > > > are
> > > > simply uploaded and are registered in a config or the database ?
> > > >
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