Etomite Api changes not changed in Mod-X?

I tryed to install a new galery that was posted at the etomite forums but it does not work.
at the forems they say that it is made for 0.6.1 that version has new DB Api functions
I think that it would be a good thing that Mod-X also hase the new api’s from Etomite ore atleast that those calls are passed truw the right mod-x API calls

this is the galery and the discution about this api change:
http://www.etomite.org/forums/index.php?s=a8a9667bfdd482e7e0b11ca724ae2799&showtopic=3022&st=15

hmmm,

Should we be doing that? Or should we be port the apps to work with MODx?

If the DB API calls can be easily aliased or translated into MODx API calls, then I don’t see why not. Hmmm... perhaps an opportunity for an "Etomite Compatibility" module?

Well I guess we can create a plugin that emulates the newer Etomite API functions.

That would be great
Alot of usable snippets are being created for etomite
would be a wast to rewrite all of them if we could solve this with a snippet

Definitely think this should be an optional plugin for those of us who will never have a need to run Etomite code.

From what I read so far, Modx will be a night and day in compare to Etomite as time progress.

How far will Modx stay compatible with Etomite?
Is there a real need to do that?
How much more work and drain of the Modx resources to do that?
Will Modx know all the changes that is going on in Etomite to adequely keep the level of compatibilty to be reasonablly usable?

Thanks

I think at some point in tme we will not be able to do so. From what it seems the developers of Etomite have introduced a new $etomite-db() function which might pose some problems for the MODx DBAPI object $modx->db.

What I do know is that Etomite Snippets can be easily ported to MODx the platform

My personal thought on this is that by 1.0 we should just drop the Etomite compatability altogether. We already have all sorts of double assignments and

sprinked through the code. And clearly our roadmaps are considerably different. Not to mention it seems a lot more progressive stuff is being done on this side of the fence.

Why not just decide to call ourselves an entirely new project? Certainly at TP4 with the new manager, the consolidation of some of the features, the frontend editing, the Custom Fields, etc., there are huge differences between the two and it is doubtful that anyone logging into the backends would even realize they had the same origination.

In a nutshell: why waste time (our most precious commodity, seeing that we are all unpaid) in trying to keep our new work compatible with a group of people who don’t even want to play with us?

That’s my cent and a half, but remember-- I’m the one with straw for brains!

Well I agree with you to a degree

Let’s keep things tolling the way they are now as most of out existing MODx snippets/module/plugins will still work with the new manager then it also means that Eto 0.6 snippets will also work. But as for Eto 0.6.1...