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serendipity - version tracking of plugins
Posted: Wed Aug 03, 2005 6:33 pm
by 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?
Re: serendipity - version tracking of plugins
Posted: Wed Aug 03, 2005 7:14 pm
by 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
Posted: Wed Aug 03, 2005 8:36 pm
by 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?
Posted: Wed Aug 03, 2005 9:03 pm
by 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
Posted: Wed Aug 03, 2005 10:32 pm
by gwilsonmail
What are
PEAR-like chanels.
Posted: Thu Aug 04, 2005 12:59 am
by 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