[Spam] [bbDev] templates dir

[Michael D Adams]

On Feb 8, 2007, at 1:45 PM, Aditya Naik wrote:
> you suggested to drop the themes in the my-templates dir rather  
> than the bb-templates dir.. any particular reason?

To keep upgrading as simple as possible.  Any custom stuff  
(templates, plugins) should not be placed in directories that bbPress  
distributes.  This is a big fault of WordPress.

Ideally, people should be able to delete every directory that comes  
with bbPress and keep all their custom stuff.  In part because that's  
just plain cleaner and in part because a lot of people upgrade via  
FTP which is notoriously flakey about over writing stuff; if you  
upgrade via FTP, you should delete all non-custom stuff first and  
then upload.

Keeping custom directories and core directories separate makes that  
process much cleaner.

Also, bbPress will probably eventually ship with two or three themes  
and we don't want to over write anyone's custom theme they've wrongly  
put in bb-templates.

Great question :)  I've updated the release post on the blog with  
more explicit instructions.
Michael