[geeklog-devel] Autoinstall plugins and dependencies

[Randy Kolenko]

So, is there some agreement here as to the implementation of a
plugin_check_prerequisites_pluginname()  function?

OR are we going to offload those checks to the auto-installer routine
via the associative array noted by Vinny?


-randy



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Randy Kolenko 
> Sent: Monday, October 05, 2009 9:06 AM
> To: Geeklog Development
> Subject: Re: [geeklog-devel] Autoinstall plugins and dependencies
> 
> 
> 
> 
> > 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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