[wp-hackers] auto-loading plugin deps ( prev: pluggable functions )

[Ben Lobaugh]

Hey Mike,

I think it would be great to see something similar to the enqueue 
scripts that you can pass required dependencies to, probably the slug of 
the plugin from the repo. If it does not exist then WP will disable the 
plugin and/or prompt you to install the dependency to enable the plugin.

I have written a few library plugins as well and I can sympathize with 
the dependency management and load order of plugins. It is tricky with 
the current way WP works, but I do not think it would be too difficult 
to add something of that sort to the system. Check and see if anything 
like that exists on Trac, if not would you be interested in exploring a 
solution to patch core to do that with me?

Cheers,
Ben

On 10/28/12 8:21 PM, Mike Schinkel wrote:
> On Oct 28, 2012, at 11:04 PM, Daniel Dvorkin <elrabino at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I've been wondering about this for a while. WP_Dependencies (the class
>> extended by WP_Scripts and WP_Styles) seems well suited to handle some sort
>> of library load in the same way we can register, unregister
>> and prioritise scripts and styles.
> Yes, it does look like WP_Dependencies would be a good base for dependency management.  That is, however, a large scope and I'd fear a larger scope would be beyond consideration.
>
> WP_Dependencies helps manage the tree of dependencies; the smaller scoped need would be to collect up a list of latest needed libraries and load the latest one of each or fire an action to notify a plugin that its library load request can't be fulfilled so it can notify the admin user and avoid using the library.
>
> -Mike
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