Topic: So that's where I've been...
Hi everyone!
I thought it'd became time to let you guys know something... since you all seem to be wondering where I've been: some of you may think I'm dead, others might think that I've just stopped working on this endless project and again others may think I have gone gaga after switching to Mac.
Well, you're all wrong.
Truth is that I said I would be starting to work on the DriverPacks again around the 20th of June at the earliest. Unfortunately, my school seemed to have planned several things I did not know about. I didn't have the time to focus on the DriverPacks again.
Then I started my summer job, on July the 1st. Again busy. But I started coding nevertheless. One week later, I had finished a completely new 'finishing touch', now called 'DriverPacks Finisher'. In the past weekend I've modified the code for the GUI to be multilingual. And at this very moment I am further modularizing the GUI, to reduce the complexity of the code (which can truly be called complex and often far from straightforward, to accomplish certain things) and to allow for easily adding new slipstream modules.
Yes. That was/is the actual goal: new slipstream modules. But before doing so, I wanted to have the other code to be much more modularized than it is now. Once this is complete, I'll be able to add new platforms in the blink of an eye... kind of.
That last one, the modularization of the GUI, has proved to be more complex than I first anticipated... so it's taking a bit more time. But I think I can put the beta online by next wednessday, in exactly one week. I consider a beta as a necessity when there's such a significant change in the entire application.
Instead of spending alot of time on the forums, which is rather timeconsuming, it made more sense to me to just focus on coding the new features. And I'm sure you're going to like it 
P.S.: yes, I did 'make the switch'! A MacBook Pro 17", with 2GB of RAM. That does not mean I'm swimming in the money like Scrooge McDuck: I've payed every single euro myself. I've had a nice discount, else this wouldn't have been possible. The major part is payed by the money I earned through the last summer jobs I had. But also a significant, yet minor part, was paid thanks to the people who donated to me. THANK YOU VERY MUCH!
This laptop will be extensively used for the next 4 years: for my studies. And of course for the development of the DriverPacks. Parallels runs smoothly with the 512MB of RAM I've assigned to it. The 2GB of physical RAM results in a very responsive system. This works so much more efficient! THANKS AGAIN!
Wim Leers
