[wp-hackers] Plugin Upgrade Failing when using Subversion

Mike Schinkel mikeschinkel at newclarity.net
Fri Jan 16 01:33:41 GMT 2009


"Peter Westwood" <peter.westwood at ftwr.co.uk> wrote:
> If I was doing this for a large WordPress project I would 
> have my own svn repo with externals for WordPress and the 
> plugins pinned on specific revisions so as to be able to 
> test in the dev environment before pushing to production 
> and I wouldn't go near the built in upgrader.
> The built in upgrader is designed for people who don't 
> use svn (esp those who don't know how to - or that it 
> even exists).

Suffice it to say, what works for some doesn't work for everyone.

> The devs hang out on irc in #wordpress-dev on freenode.

Thanks for that. I'm just starting to use IRC so I'll definitely check it out.

-Mike Schinkel
http://mikeschinkel.com


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