The Hardware is Not Enough: Comments for "Movable Type 4 beta"

Comment from Mark Carey

Tue, 10 Jul 2007 21:02:33 +00:00

Hi Rob,

Fast Search will be updated for MT4. Early indications are that it will require quite a bit of work under the hood. As soon as Six Apart releases some developer docs in this area, I will be doing an MT4 version of Fast Search -- hopefully it will be ready for the MT4 launch, if not before.

SmartRebuild should become unnecessary in MT, but I have not yet checked the MT4 code in this area. But not long after I released SmartRebuild, 6A checked in a very similar fix into a development branch of the MT code. I assume that made into MT4, but I am not sure.

Comment from Rob Buckley

Sun, 29 Jul 2007 22:27:05 +00:00

Thanks for letting me know. Fast Search is a really invaluable plug-in, particularly for reducing server load, so I definitely won't be going to MT4 until it's been updated.

Fortunately, one of the latest betas fixed the problems that were causing most plug-ins to work, but I'm still waiting for documentation and MT Media Manager and MT Blogroll as well before I make the leap.

Comment from towersys

Thu, 20 Dec 2007 23:58:49 +00:00

Hey Rob, came across your blog whilst googling for a media player plugin for entries. Good read. Version 4 was long overdue and I was really expecting more from Six Apart. At the very least they should have had made sure that most of the popular plugins were MT 4 ready. Not to mention some nice command line importing/exporting and rebuild scripts just to make upgrading that little bit easier. There's this huge reliance on the community for these sorts of things and i think its kinda cheeky considering MT is pretty much commercial software, despite this step toward free additions and an Open Source version...