[wp-hackers] Upgrade sanity checks

[DD32]

How do localized versions of WP Work?
I thought it was just a language specifier in wp-config and a .po file? 


On Thu, 28 Feb 2008 19:47:52 +1100, kingler <kingler at 72pines.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 12:22 AM, Nikolay Bachiyski
> <nbachiyski at developer.bg> wrote:
>> 2008/2/28, Stefano Aglietti <steagl4ml at gmail.com>:
>>
>> > On Wed, 27 Feb 2008 14:04:26 -0600, Otto <otto at ottodestruct.com>
>>  >  wrote:
>>  >
>>  >
>>  >  >Now, I've seen a trac ticket for case #1 before (and that can be
>>  >  >solved by better error handling in upgrade.php), so I was thinking
>>  >  >about case #2. Is it possible for the upgrade.php file to perform a
>>  >  >sanity check, and make sure that all the WordPress files are present
>>  >  >and correct?
>>  >  >
>>  >  >One way would be to have it load some other file which is a list of
>>  >  >all the WordPress files, then check (and potentially hash) them all to
>>  >  >ensure that they are unchanged. Every time a new release occurred,
>>  >
>>  >
>>  > Great idea, when developped I would remeber the programmes to not
>>  >  forget that all this should works for localized files too (unless by
>>  >  that time hard coded strings will be centralized in some wat avoiding
>>  >  single file editing)
>>
>>  On every release at locale.wordpress.org we can compute the sums and
>>  hand them out to the api server. The client with non-default locale
>>  will get both the official and the local set of checksums for the new
>>  version. To me, it seems a tolerable overhead.
>
> Good idea, Nikolay!
> I was worried about the compatibility of the upgrade check for
> localized versions. Now you solved the problem, we should really get
> the files ready for the cn.wordpress.org site...
>
>>
>>  Happy hacking,
>>  Nikolay.
>>
>>
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