[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #16953: Allow symlinked plugins

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#16953: Allow symlinked plugins
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 Reporter:  scribu       |       Owner:  rmccue
     Type:  enhancement  |      Status:  reopened
 Priority:  normal       |   Milestone:  3.9
Component:  Plugins      |     Version:
 Severity:  normal       |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  needs-patch  |     Focuses:
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Comment (by rmccue):

 Looking into this now.

 I'm in favour of the ignore-single-files solution. If we ignore all mu-
 plugins (since they're all single file; setups with mu-plugins in
 subfolders can call `wp_register_plugin_realpath` in their custom loaders)
 and single-file plugins, we should be OK here. You can still symlink
 either of these, but any references to `plugin_url` will break; I don't
 forsee this being a huge problem, since single-file plugins with external
 resources are _doing_it_wrong and should use a directory.

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