[geeklog-devel] Autoinstall plugins and dependencies

[Vincent Furia]

An associative array would probably work better:

PluginA_Required = array(
       'PluginB' => '1.1.0',
       'PluginC' => '2.1.1'
);

On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 7:06 AM, Randy Kolenko <Randy.Kolenko at nextide.ca>wrote:


>

>

> > Yes that sums it up. If we want to do version checking for plugin

> dependencies

> > we'll have to figure out a way to compare version numbers (difficult,

> since we

> > don't specify a versioning system).

>

>

> So, extending your initial idea of:

>

> PluginA_Required = array('PluginB', 'PluginC');

>

> This could simply be an array of arrays:

>

> PluginA_Required = array(

>        array('PluginB','1.1.0'),

>        array('PluginC','2.1.1')

> );

>

> And the installer would check for the version number tacked in the

> plugin table.

> The plugin_required array could be part of the $info return array in the

> autoinstall function.

> If a plugin is not installed and is in the required array AND it exists

> in the install path, the installer could go ahead and install the

> dependant plugins.

>

> Likewise, it would be a good idea for the autoinstaller to be able to

> test out file writing permissions for those plugins that require dumping

> data to the file system.  That could easily be another return in the

> $info array.

>

> However we still need the autoinstall to be able to return error codes

> and/or write them to the error.log file depending on how/where the

> installation is happening.

>

> -randy

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