[wp-hackers] Plugin Management and Autoupdate System

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On 8/1/06, Charles <lists06 at wiltgen.net> wrote:
> BTW, is the intent for this to work for themes as well?
>
> RDF sounds a little top-heavy.  Could each plug-in/theme just have an
> associated feed pointing to the latest release (or releases, if there are
> both 1.x and 2.x releases?)  Assuming a couple namespace extensions,
> something like...
>
> <?xml version="1.0"?>
> <rss version="2.0" xmlns:wp="http://wordpress.org/component-feeds/">
> <channel>
>        <title>Updates feed for "Wash Dishes" plug-in for WordPress</title>
>        <link>http://www.mysite.com/plug-in_home_page/</link>
>        <description>This plug-in allows WordPress to wash
> dishes.</description>
>        <image>
>                <title>"Wash Dishes" plug-in icon</title>
>                <url>http://www.mysite.com/plug-in_home_page/icon.png</url>
>                <link>http://www.mysite.com/plug-in_home_page/<link>
>        </image>
>        <item>
>                <title>"Wash Dishes" plug-in for WordPress 2.x</title>
>
> <link>http://www.mysite.com/plug-in_home_page/wash_dishes_wp2x.zip</link>
>        <wp:plugInVersion>1.7.1</wp:plugInVersion>
>        <wp:forWordPressVersion>2.x</wp:forWordPressVersion>
>        </item>
>        <item>
>                <title>"Wash Dishes" plug-in for WordPress 1.x</title>
>
> <link>http://www.mysite.com/plug-in_home_page/wash_dishes_wp1x.zip</link>
>        <wp:plugInVersion>1.1.5</wp:plugInVersion>
>        <wp:forWordPressVersion>1.x</wp:forWordPressVersion>
>        </item>
> </channel>
> </rss>
>
> -- Charles
>
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That's what it is, more or less. You just posted an RDF - I'm using
the same thing :-D, just a different tags...