[wp-hackers] Plugin deactivation

[Ryan Boren]

On Sun, 2005-07-03 at 20:52 -0400, Scott Merrill wrote:
> Terrence Wood wrote:
> > Is there any way for a plugin to determine when it's deactivated so it 
> > can run some cleanup code?
> > 
> > I am testing a plugin that modifies .htaccess, and would like to remove 
> > some rewrite rules if the plugin is deactivated.
> 
> Ticket 1052 was filed in early March:
>     http://trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1052
> 
> I see no reason not to add hooks for plugin_activated 
> plugin_deactivated.  The hooks could even take as options the name of 
> the plugin being (de-)activated.

That method won't work.  We'll probably need to use something like the
register_activation_hook(), register_deactivation_hook() stuff I
proposed during the thread on overriding core functions.  We pushed that
aside because we decided to go with the simpler pluggable-functions.php
method for 1.5.1.  Maybe now is the time to investigate it again.

Ryan