Well fair enough, then... I withdraw my philosophical complaint. :)<div><br></div><div>Chip<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 9:23 PM, Otto <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:otto@ottodestruct.com">otto@ottodestruct.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div class="im">On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 8:48 PM, Chip Bennett <<a href="mailto:chip@chipbennett.net">chip@chipbennett.net</a>> wrote:<br>
> Except that, by *what*, I really mean *if*: as in, is it a foregone<br>
> conclusion that Child Themes will be in the Repository?<br>
<br>
</div>I'm more focusing on making it capable of doing it. Guidelines on what<br>
are kinda your problem. ;)<br>
<br>
But yes, child themes will be allowed eventually. The reasons have<br>
been technical, not philosophical.<br>
<div class="im"><br>
On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 9:17 PM, Chip Bennett <<a href="mailto:chip@chipbennett.net">chip@chipbennett.net</a>> wrote:<br>
> Originally, Child Themes were intended to be *update-proof*, not "more<br>
> update-proof", than (stand-alone) Themes. They were intended as a way for<br>
> the *end user* to add Theme modifications that would be retained when the<br>
> Parent Theme was updated.<br>
<br>
</div>Yeah, I thought that too, and said so last week. Matt corrected me,<br>
and said that that was not the intended purpose of child themes. The<br>
intended purpose was to allow themes to be extended, as they were<br>
doing lots of CSS-only type competitions at the time (with things like<br>
the Sandbox theme and so on), and child themes were intended to<br>
facilitate that.<br>
<br>
In Matt's words (or pretty close, I was not recording at the time):<br>
"if we had intended to make themes capable of retaining modifications<br>
through upgrades, we've have done it differently".<br>
<br>
So yes, child themes are not end-user-only from the .org's<br>
perspective, and will be allowed in the repo, eventually.<br>
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-Otto<br>
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