[wp-testers] Add comments to the posts will drop custom field of the posts?

[Ryan Boren]

On 1/27/07, Mark Jaquith <mark.wordpress at txfx.net> wrote:
> While plugin authors are definitely to blame for assuming that
> "doesn't exist" is the same as "exists and is empty," we might want
> to consider using an alternative hook for announcing that the comment
> count has been updated for a post.
>
> http://trac.wordpress.org/ticket/3699

I left a comment on the ticket.  My question is have these plugins
ever worked when editing via xmlrpc?  xmlrpc edits results in
edit_post being sent.  Since there is no edit post form when editing
over xmlrpc, these plugins would have exhibited this problem with WP
2.0 xmlrpc editing, yes?

Ryan