QuoteI think Wedge does that (or they do a lot of manual posting
Manual posting, baby!
QuoteIt was just a thought. I toy with many ideas in my head. Some of them are great, others are not.
Yeah, I know that feeling only too well.
QuoteMy thoughts on it mostly would be that it would make it much easier to work with since we got a almost standalone install.
The problem with it is that you end up having to reduplicate a ton of stuff. For example you'd pretty much need to handle attachments yourself with all the joys of things like file permissions. By bootstrapping it with the existing attachments system (for example) there's no duplication and much lower support overhead.
QuoteIts not like plugin manager can't still scan the packages directory or do the LE.
If only that's what it actually did. The plugin manager still relies on the packages system to actually perform installs etc. and the language editor is a direct integration of the SD files.
QuoteMy thoughts where you would be able to decompress it into a directory, run the installer which would setup a settings file with the link to SMF SSI.php, and a few other basic settings and off you go.
Yeah, that'd be the ideal except it means a massive rewrite and all kinds of support issues that were never support issues in the first place even assuming the rewrite doesn't generate new bugs.
QuoteI've also toyed with the idea of seeing what we could do to start a abstraction layer, so SMF isn't the only source it will work on but other forks such as Wedge could use SimpleDesk.
No chance it's going to work on Wedge. I did make the port to Wedge and mostly it worked last time I tested it, even allowing for all the bazillions of changes in our markup. But I realised ultimately that I want to rewrite from scratch for Wedge to fix some of the architectural issues that are present (e.g. being able to assign multiple people to a ticket and the mess that is the current 'items to do' count for each user), plus there's things like the Wedge notifications system that can be used now.