[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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