[wp-hackers] Backup Plug-in and WordPress Plug-In System - Was Re:" "

[Terrence Wood]

I agree, if the aim is to keep the core light I would sooner see buckup 
functionality in the core than, say, smilie faces (88k uncompressed 
images plus extra parsing, and largely unused by my reckoning).

Surely data integrity is far more important.

Terrence Wood.

Jonathan Firestone wrote:

> Frankly most WordPress plug-ins aren't really plug-ins. Making
> plug-ins and the main distribution of WordPress as light as possible
> should mean
> 1) being able to put a plug-in into the plug-ins directory, 
> 2) have the application auto-sense the plug in and then let that be it
[snip]
> Why do I say this and use the Backup plug-in as an example? It seems
> to me that any backup function that forces you to drop files into a
> directory that should only house main distribution of the software
> (and nothing more -- so the main distribution of the product can be
> easily and simply upgraded) is a MODIFICATION, not truly a plug-in.
> It's one I have to track every time I upgrade.