[geeklog-devel] [geeklog-cvs] Geeklog-1.x

[Blaine Lang]

Joe Mucchiello wrote:
 > ADMIN_list or ADMIN_simplelist is in the sourcecode of both forums 
and mediagallery.

Unless you have been talking to a different Blaine and a different Forum 
plugin but speaking for this Blaine, I have never used the lib-admin 
functions in any of my plugins.
As Dirk noted, I've been installing plugins on GL 1.5.1 CVS and have not 
seen any issues.

Blaine (the other one).


> At 02:18 PM 11/28/2007, Dirk Haun wrote:

>> So, strictly speaking, the ADMIN_list functions are not part of the

>> plugin API, although I can perfectly understand that plugin authors may

>> want to use them, e.g. for consistent looks. The question is: How many

>> really do? From what I can see, neither Blaine nor Mark seem to use them

>> in their plugins, for example.

>

> ADMIN_list or ADMIN_simplelist is in the sourcecode of both forums and 

> mediagallery. Blaine and Mark however don't use the $menu_arr (or 

> later) parameters so those plugins are not affected by the change. 

> Ratings, faq, autotags, and glutil will need updates of the plugins 

> I'm aware of (and that's really not all that many). It came up for 

> mostly working with merging changes for calendar.

>

> Not wanting to start another argument but "plugin API" in my opinion 

> applies to all the function plugins call: COM_, SEC_, DB_, etc. If you 

> change the interface to SEC_hasAccess for some reason, it will affect 

> plugins.

>

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