[wp-hackers] "Outdated plugin" notice (was: load_plugin_textdomain() )

[Stephen Rider]

On Jul 29, 2008, at 4:30 PM, Stephen Rider wrote:

>
> On Jul 29, 2008, at 7:51 AM, Jacob Santos wrote:
>
>>> So the best way would be to force plugin-devs to manually fill the
>>> "Requires WordPress Version: X.X or higher" and "Compatible up to:
>>> X.X" fields on  wp.org/extend/plugins? And maybe add a backend check
>>> to make sure it really fits in this versions, and if not send a
>>> warning to the plugin-dev to proofread his code and revalidate his
>>> stated supported versions?
>>>
>>
>> I think it would be great to have a front end with the plugins/ 
>> themes extend where a trusted member can confirm the tested up to.  
>> That would be wicked sweet. I'm unsure how it would work.
>
> Depending on plugin authors to fill in the max compatibility info is  
> circular reasoning.  If they're not checking it out and getting rid  
> of obsolete function calls, they sure as heck aren't going to fill  
> in the compatibility info either.  "When it breaks, it needs  
> updating."
>
> About the only way I can think of that this could be automated is  
> if, upon update, WordPress read the source files of plugins and  
> looked (via grep) for function calls, and then compared what it  
> found to a list of deprecated functions.
>
> Kind of brute force, but the _deprecated_function and  
> _deprecated_file functions can only find the functions when they're  
> called.
>
> Okay, second idea:
>
> Maybe a debug system could hook into _deprecated_function etc. and  
> simply record hits.  (I think there is a do_action within each of  
> those, so it could be done that way with a plugin right now.)
>
> The limitation is that it would only find them as they are called,  
> and thus couldn't possibly flag bad plugins preemptively.  To find  
> the outdated code without running it, you need to read the files....
>
> Is there a hook for when WordPress notices that it's been updated?   
> (Not just when database needs to change, but when THIS run is a  
> higher version of WP than the PREVIOUS run?)
>
> Stephen
>
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> Stephen Rider
> <http://striderweb.com/>
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