serendipity - version tracking of plugins

[gwilsonmail]

does serendipity tell you that a new version of an installed plugin is available? If so how?

the plugins admin screen doesn't show the version of the installed plugin. Should it?

[garvinhicking]

When using spartacus it will indicate new plugin versions with a red icon in the "Click here to install XXX plugin" menu.

Regards,
Garvin

[gwilsonmail]

Pretty cool - I'll have to stay less current and see the effect!

Supplementary question - what prevents rogue code from being posted, especially now that you have mirrors, and being downloaded to a blog?

[garvinhicking]

Currently we only distribute CVS plugins where everyone checks and reviews the code. FTP access to netmirror is only existing for me currently, so the mirroring is more a "proof of concept".

For the future we will have to think of some sort of authenticating system, especially if we're going to try PEAR-like chanells.

Regards,
Garvin

[gwilsonmail]

What are

PEAR-like chanels.

[garvinhicking]

The PEAR project installer (http://pear.php.net/) allows to create "channels" to download and install other projects codes, and not only PEAR groups.

Thus, Serendipity can provide a PEAR-Server on its own, which only hosts Serendipity related stuff - the benefit of this would be that we can use a well developed server management tool and a wide-spread availilibity of the PEAR installer (it's default installed on PHP > 4.3 servers).

More info is available on the PEAR site, I hope I could give you a quick glimpse.

Regards,
Garvin