[wp-testers] WordPress Automatic Upgrade

[Alex Günsche]

On Wed, 2007-09-12 at 12:49 +0200, Lorenzo wrote:
> Hi! What do you think about the plugin "WordPress Automatic
> Upgrade<http://techie-buzz.com/wordpress-plugins/wordpress-automatic-upgrade-plugin-update.html>"
> (the 3rd winner of the WP Plugin
> Competition<http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2007/08/26/winners-wordpress-plugin-competition/>
> )?
> I think it would be a nice feature added by default to WP (like you did for
> Akismet)!!

I myself have also released an automatic upgrade plugin
(http://www.zirona.com/software/wordpress-instant-upgrade), long before
that other one. However, I don't think it is a good idea to have such a
thing in the core of WordPress. People also said of my plugin it should
be in the core, I collected some arguments why this -- at least at the
moment -- not a good idea:

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