[wp-testers] Testers wanted: Plugin update testing

Mr. Awesome theone.andonly.mr.awesome at gmail.com
Sun Mar 16 21:40:35 GMT 2008


Aaron Harun wrote:
> The main concern I have with this method is that any error along the
> process will not only break the plugin but it may also break the
> entire website. Even without an error that breaks the plugin, on
> larger plugins, you will have part of it working as the updated
> version and part of it the older version. Of course you can stop both
> of these by deactivating the plugin first, but without an extremely
> reliable uploader, even a little error can kill the entire website.
>   

Yeah, I can agree with that. I forgot about that, remembering back, that 
did happen to me before. Thank God for the Maintenance Mode plugin... LOL!

> A second problem is that, over time, files change names or are removed
> from plugins. A straight uploader can't handle that, and doesn't know
> which ones should be removed and which should stay.

True!


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