[wp-hackers] Upgrade sanity checks

[kingler]

In addition to the wp-config.php and .po/.mo files, localized versions
of WP can also override some WordPress files, in order to add in
certain translations.

Take a look at these files and you will get a feel:
http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress-i18n/bg_BG/tags/2.3.1/dist/

-Liang

kingler from 72pines

On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 12:53 AM, DD32 <wordpress at dd32.id.au> wrote:
> How do localized versions of WP Work?
>  I thought it was just a language specifier in wp-config and a .po file?
>
>
>
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>  On Thu, 28 Feb 2008 19:47:52 +1100, kingler <kingler at 72pines.com> wrote:
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>  > On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 12:22 AM, Nikolay Bachiyski
>  > <nbachiyski at developer.bg> wrote:
>  >> 2008/2/28, Stefano Aglietti <steagl4ml at gmail.com>:
>  >>
>  >> > On Wed, 27 Feb 2008 14:04:26 -0600, Otto <otto at ottodestruct.com>
>  >>  >  wrote:
>  >>  >
>  >>  >
>  >>  >  >Now, I've seen a trac ticket for case #1 before (and that can be
>  >>  >  >solved by better error handling in upgrade.php), so I was thinking
>  >>  >  >about case #2. Is it possible for the upgrade.php file to perform a
>  >>  >  >sanity check, and make sure that all the WordPress files are present
>  >>  >  >and correct?
>  >>  >  >
>  >>  >  >One way would be to have it load some other file which is a list of
>  >>  >  >all the WordPress files, then check (and potentially hash) them all to
>  >>  >  >ensure that they are unchanged. Every time a new release occurred,
>  >>  >
>  >>  >
>  >>  > Great idea, when developped I would remeber the programmes to not
>  >>  >  forget that all this should works for localized files too (unless by
>  >>  >  that time hard coded strings will be centralized in some wat avoiding
>  >>  >  single file editing)
>  >>
>  >>  On every release at locale.wordpress.org we can compute the sums and
>  >>  hand them out to the api server. The client with non-default locale
>  >>  will get both the official and the local set of checksums for the new
>  >>  version. To me, it seems a tolerable overhead.
>  >
>  > Good idea, Nikolay!
>  > I was worried about the compatibility of the upgrade check for
>  > localized versions. Now you solved the problem, we should really get
>  > the files ready for the cn.wordpress.org site...
>  >
>  >>
>  >>  Happy hacking,
>  >>  Nikolay.
>  >>
>  >>
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