[wp-hackers] Plugin installation

[Brian Meidell]

What came of this thread?:
http://wordpress.org/pipermail/hackers_wordpress.org/2004-June/thread.html#205

There were a lot of good points raised, but as far as I can tell, no 
decisions were ever made from it?

Points like:
1) Pros and cons to multi/single file plugins
2) Plugins changing admin forms
3) Configuration interfaces for plugins
4) Options database interfacing code for plugin devs

Were any design decisions made? Any conclusions drawn?
Did anyone start writing code because of any the points raised? If so, what?

I've read a lot of the archives and skimmed titles on all of it, but I'm 
sorry if I've missed the answers to these questions in there.

/Brian

Brian Meidell wrote:

> 
> I had a thought that it might be nice if you could upload plugin zip 
> files in the control panel, which wp would then unzip in the correct dir 
> and ask you if you wanted to activate it.
> 
> What do you think?
> 
> I could even make a quick little applet that would allow people to just 
> drag it onto a little drop target on the author page, and then it would 
> happen automatically. Even though having applets in the core is probably 
> never going to happen, the thought is fun :)
> 
> /Brian
> 
> 
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