[wp-hackers] Selected Improvements to the Core

[Jeff Waugh]

<quote who="Jacob Santos">

> There needs to be a way to say to the user, "Oops, sorry, I'm dependent on
> several factors and you don't met those." Which is currently lacking in
> the patch. It might be confusing for users to click activate and have
> WordPress say the plugin was activated, but not have the plugin be
> activated.  However, I'm unsure how to do this at this point.
>
> I still would rather have something that allows me prevent my plugin's
> activation until my plugin's requirements are met.

How about something like the following?

  http://www.gnome.org/~jdub/2008/activated-but-inoperable.txt

- Jeff

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