[wp-hackers] Re: Plugin update notifications

[Alexander Beutl]

You're right - I checked it - it really doesn't check readme.txt
but it shouldn't check against the folder in which the plugin resides too...
Confusing.

2008/4/13, Viper007Bond <viper at viper007bond.com>:
>
> Unless I'm remembering wrong, only all the plugin meta from the top of the
> plugin file is sent to WP.org. The readme file is never touched.
>
>
> On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 1:25 AM, Ozh <ozh at planetozh.com> wrote:
>
> > I think the readme.txt file on the user's side is not needed, actually
> >
> > On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 10:20 AM, Alexander Beutl <xel at netgra.de> wrote:
> > > As you said nothing about it:
> > >  Is there a readme.txt file in this directory?
> > >
> > >  2008/4/13, Mahmoud H. Al-Qudsi <computerguru at neosmart.net>:
> > >
> > >
> > > >
> > >  > I don't think that's the case - I WISH it were.
> > >  >
> > >  > I have a hand-hacked version of the recent-posts widget, modified
> to
> > take
> > >  > advantage of the caching system I'm using. I renamed it, removed
> the
> > >  > author
> > >  > URI, and did a million different things, yet WP 2.5 keeps on asking
> > me to
> > >  > upgrade to the "new" version...
> > >  >
> > >  > For clarification:
> > >  > File: wp-content/plugins/widgets/nst_recent.php
> > >  > Name: "NST Recent Posts Widget"
> > >  > Author:
> > >  >
> > >  > But I am STILL asked to "Download version 1.2.1.20070210b here"
> > (linking
> > >  > to
> > >  > http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/widgets/)
> > >  >
> > >  > It's ONLY looking at the directory name ("widgets") and not at
> > anything
> > >  > else, and that's driving me crazy. It thinks that because there's a
> > plugin
> > >  > in a folder called "widgets" that means it's the same "widgets"
> > plugin on
> > >  > wordpress.org, and it wants to upgrade.
> > >  >
> > >  >
> > >  > -MQ
> > >  >
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