[wp-hackers] "Plugin could not be activated because it triggered a fatal error." But what is the error?

Otto otto at ottodestruct.com
Fri Mar 12 19:36:36 UTC 2010


On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 12:15 PM, Andrew Nacin <wp at andrewnacin.com> wrote:
> Beyond that, it's exactly what I suspected. Re-declaring a plugin throws an
> E_COMPILE_ERROR, which in 2.9 we do not account for. (Thus, if you have two
> active plugins defining the same function, you'll get a white screen of
> death.)

Yep.

3.0 patched this here:
http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/12395

-Otto


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