[wp-testers] Automatic Plugin Upgrader

Kirk M justhinkin2 at gmail.com
Thu Mar 13 15:07:13 GMT 2008


> This is why I'm also strongly in favour of putting the 
> upgrade stuff
> into a plugin. It really doesn't have to be in the core 
> from a technical
> point of view. And it's much too unstable due to the lot 
> of different
> FTP servers and PHP setups out there. I know that it's 
> quite late in the
> development of 2.5 for such a major design revision, but 
> that FTP stuff
> can really break things. In my opinion, the right thing to 
> do would be:
> Externalize it into a plugin, and add API hooks for it in
> wp-admin/plugins.php. If you need help, I'm at your 
> service (although I
> don't think there's much I can do).
>
> Cheers,
> Alex
>
> -- 
> Alex Günsche, Zirona OpenSource-Consulting
> Blogs: http://www.zirona.com/ | 
> http://www.regularimpressions.net
> *** Want to test the shiny new release of InstantUpgrade? 
> ***
> http://www.zirona.com/blog/software/instantupgrade-10-beta/
>

I'm rather new to wp-testers but a long time follower of the 
threads and a longtime user of WordPress (old tech head as 
well) and after working with the new plugin auto upgrading 
feature I have to agree, with Alex, it might be better to 
leave this up to plugins especially since there's already 3 
out there (that I know of); Alex's "InstantUpgrade" and 
Keith Dsouza's "WordPress Automatic Upgrades Plugin" for 
WordPress upgrading and Anirudh Sanjeev's "OneClick" for 
upgrading plugins (I've used the latter 2 very successfully 
once they got past the initial releases).

Alex is right, for all the myriad setups that WordPress 
could possibly be installed in, trying to incorporate auto 
upgrading as a core WordPress feature seems to be way more 
trouble than it's worth. I'm not being pert when I say you 
folks have enough to deal with as it is without having to 
untangle *this* can of worms. Let the plugins authors handle 
this one for you and keep that part of the core clean.

Just my humble opinion. ;) 



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