[wp-testers] plugin updating...

[Jacob Santos]

Might be time to revive the upgrade script idea (or am I thinking of 
plugin data discussion). Might be useful to have a file called 
upgrade.php (or whatever) which is called within the context of a class 
which gives it access to control the flow of the upgrade.

Dan Milward wrote:
> Hi Dion,
>
> Thanks for the email.
>
> If you could come up with a few hooks then that would be awesome. I'm 
> asking because we create plugins and I think it would be useful - the 
> problem we are having right now is that people can add additional php 
> files to our plugin to extend the core features.
>
> So when the update the plugin from WordPress extend they loose their 
> work. If we were making a new plugin from scratch then this wouldn't 
> be a problem and we would do it differently but because we already 
> have lots of users I'm not sure we can do it.
>
> As an interim what we're going to try and do is just disable auto 
> updates from happening but allow people to manually download updates 
> and do it themselves. For powerful plugins I think this would be 
> extremely cool.
>
> Ciao,
>
> Dan
>
>
> DD32 wrote:
>> It is not currently possible to hook in to make changes to what 
>> is/isnt deleted.
>>
>> The plugin directory the files are stored in are often not the same 
>> as the plugin's slug, In order to keep simpler code, all plugins are 
>> stored into a folder based on their slug and the old plugin removed.
>>
>> If you have made changes to the core plugin, Consider submitting them 
>> as patches back to the author, or forking the plugn(at least for 
>> yourself = modify the plugin name and url)
>> If the plugin stores files into its plugin folder, Consider asking 
>> the plugin maintainer to store the data outside of the plugins 
>> folder, Or in the database if its small enough. This has the benefit 
>> of also keeping the plugins folder manageable.
>>
>> It may be possible in 2.6 to filter what is/isnt 
>> deleted/removed/modified/etc, There have been 1 or 2 requests for it 
>> so far since 2.5 release :). I'm working on some changes which'll 
>> affect the upgraders code, so i may well try and write a few hooks or 
>> something in, But as it is, there is no list of files which you cna 
>> filter, it just says "Delete that folder and any files in it, i dont 
>> care what the files are, just get rid of them"
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Dion
>>
>> On Wed, 04 Jun 2008 10:52:24 +1000, Dan Milward <dan at instinct.co.nz> 
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Guys,
>>>
>>> How do we add custom code to the plugin updating system to preserve
>>> files that people may have added to the plugin directory.
>>>
>>> Because by default it looks like it deletes the plugin directory and
>>> replaces the all the files with the updated version - in the process
>>> deleting any changes.
>>>
>>> Ciao,
>>>
>>> Dan
>>>
>>>
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