[wp-hackers] WP Plugins --> was::RE: [wp-forums] questionable...

[Christopher J. Hradil]

I'm not talking about deactivation, in terms of cleanup, but rather
"uninstall", currently to uninstall a plugin you can deactivate it, then
delete the plugin file[s]/directory, but there's no database cleanup. That
should be the responsibility of the plugin author via an "uninstall"
function. What's the point in keeping useless information in the database if
a plugin is removed ? the other 'function' which I mentioned was a
'deactivate_all_plugins' which would be used during something like a WP core
upgrade (and should likely be a wp core function, or a plugin on it's own)
that wouldn't need to (or shouldn't make any changes to the DB as more than
likely the plugins would be re-activated following an upgrade. 

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: wp-hackers-bounces at lists.automattic.com 
> [mailto:wp-hackers-bounces at lists.automattic.com] On Behalf Of 
> David Chait
> Sent: Saturday, August 05, 2006 3:08 PM
> To: wp-hackers at lists.automattic.com
> Subject: Re: [wp-hackers] WP Plugins --> was::RE: [wp-forums] 
> questionable...
> 
> Sounds like there needs to be a differentiation between 
> simple deactivation (still there, could turn it back on) and 
> permanent removal/uninstall (no options left behind, no 
> files..).  I >don't< think that deactivation should cause 
> ANYTHING to be removed from DB or FS... needs to be a 
> different 'button', procedure, whatever.
> 
> -d
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Rob Miller" <r at robm.me.uk>
> To: <wp-hackers at lists.automattic.com>
> Sent: Saturday, August 05, 2006 2:05 PM
> Subject: Re: [wp-hackers] WP Plugins --> was::RE: [wp-forums] 
> questionable...
> 
> 
> | Robert Deaton wrote:
> | > On 8/5/06, Robin Adrianse <shorty114 at shorty114.net> wrote:
> | >> In WordPress? Most, if not all, of the user options are in the 
> | >> database _options table. These don't get removed as far 
> as I know 
> | >> when you deactivate a plugin, so it's still there when you 
> | >> reactivate it.
> | >>
> | >
> | > Unless the deactivation hooks clean up, as they possibly should, 
> | > depending on the amont of data stored.
> | >
> | What use would a cleanup be then, if WordPress was just 
> going to store 
> | everything you delete from the database... in the database?
> | 
> 
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