[geeklog-devel] Custom user attributes in GL2

Tony Bibbs tony at tonybibbs.com
Wed Dec 22 00:05:37 EST 2004


Vincent Furia wrote:

>I just wanted to remark somewhere permanent that we need to keep in
>mind that a plugin selected for uninstall may be depended upon by
>other plugins.  Before an uninstall is begun, we need to determine the
>reverse dependencies for the plugin (what plugins, if any, rely on the
>availability of the plugin to be uninstalled) and deal with those
>appropriately.
>  
>
This is starting to beg the question if the plugin dependencies 
shouldn't be added to the datamodel.  I think you could do it without 
having it in the database but it might be easier searching there.  Just 
a thought.

>This also suggests that, like PEAR packages, we allow a plugin to
>specify requried dependencies, recommended dependencies, and optional
>dependencies.
>  
>
Agreed. 

--Tony



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