[wp-hackers] Plugin dependency checking

Stephen Rider wp-hackers at striderweb.com
Tue Jun 16 12:46:52 GMT 2009


On Jun 15, 2009, at 6:39 PM, Mike Schinkel wrote:

> As with discussion with Steven on the list, let me urge not to have  
> the child name its parent but instead have the child name the  
> "interface" that its parents can consume.  Steven called is "offers"  
> and "uses";

Just for the record, I wan't calling it anything, I was using the  
words as verbs.  ;-)  If we're going to find a terminology for it, I  
like the idea of an unambiguous metaphor for something that connects  
to something else:

plug/socket
button/buttonhole
Tab A/Slot B
toast/toaster  ;-)

I don't know what, exactly, but "interfaces" is too broad -- unless  
you know what it is, you don't know what it is.  If it's named  
properly authors can have an idea of how they work just from the name.

Stephen


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