Yeah, no mocking

I have a client, who is using Joomla 1.5.. their site is a mess of hacks, the work of multitudes of previous coders and blah blah blah. Long story short, until a full analysis is done, this site cannot be simply upgraded. HOWEVER one piece of work I need to do is a very simple 1 table extension which is needed fairly urgently.

Now, I am quite confident about doing it manually, but I have grown, as the years pass, very lazy thanks to JCook and was wondering if I can download the Joomla 1.6 generated component, making sure to remove ALL none Joomla 1.5 things such as config, new orders, save and new etc; and get it working on Joomla 1,5.

There are some older generators out there, but these require Windows.. and I dont use windows anymore (well I CAN, its just a level of pain I dont need)

Or.. do you have the OLD component creator still swtiched on, somewhere on an archive server with the 1.5 generator of the old kind still functioning.

If the admin team still has access to the old code and can generate this component, I would be willing to donate generously for their time in clicking that generate button =)

I do not have anymore this generator for 1.5. Even for me...

Did you asked on joomla.org how to make usable a 1.6 component on 1.5 ?

For differences, I would say :
- Install manifest file
- MCV totally different.
- ACLs totally differents
- UI layer
- JDom will have lot of problems

My advice is to copy an existing component, or Joomla native one (content / contacts / or else)
and then to rewrite inside.

You can see how long it is without cook
I am a bit scared because I have also kept 3 clients with 1.5 and this is frightening ....