Converting plugins to 64-bit - reward

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Christian, can you explain the last point about some criterias of negotiation of the reward? For example, you said 100$ for plugin which was just recompiled with few tweaks. But, what if plugin has not so much functionality, but was fully rewritten and even enhanced? 100$ too, or some higher? Think, all developers want to know how you asses the maning, demand and difficulty and how you asses the approximate reward level?
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As an example and start point, can you write approximate reward for rewriting the CPL plugin and the ProcFS plugin?
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That's a difficult question. Let me see: The CPL plugin is relatively simple, and duplicates functionality (accessing the control panel as a virtual folder in TC). It's also not very popular. I would say $150-$200. The ProcFS plugin is very useful, in fact I use it myself. It's also quite a bit more complex, and has 3 times as many downloads. So I think that $400-$500 would be appropriate for a complete rewrite. But as I wrote, this is a question of negotiation, there is no scheme which can be used to calculate the reward.

Please keep in mind that this is just a reward, not a payment for developing something for us! You write it mainly for the TC community.
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ghisler(Author) wrote:2. The author needs to put it on Totalcmd.net, give it a similar name as the old unsupported plugin, and send me the link
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Due to some interest of my own, I checked the plugin writers' guides today. To my surprise I found them all to be still provided in the outdated HLP-format, which isn't natively supported anymore on current Windows systems and thus not easily accessible. So I extracted the RTF-files from the HLP-files and converted them to PDF.
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All plugin guides on the Plugins page are in CHM format.
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Thanks for pointing this out. I did not expect the guides to be hidden among the plugins themselves, especially not each at the very end of its related plugins section, but rather placed prominently either in a separate section or together at the top of the plugins page. Therefore I did not find them previously.

I like to keep the RTF/PDF documents in addition as they allow for quick and easy browsing of the entire content of the guide.
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Where did you find them in HLP format?
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Hello Christian,

so to speak, they are prominently right under your nose. Check here and over here. :wink:
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Updated, thanks!
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Posts about converting java based plugins were moved were:
viewtopic.php?t=75726
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