[wp-hackers] Clarification on Tagging Plugins

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On Fri, 21 Sep 2007 07:02:52 +1000, Computer Guru <computerguru at neosmart.net> wrote:

> Just FYI: UTW and WP 2.3 share some function names, so you should advise
> people to remove UTW before upgrading, or you'll get a bunch of fatal
> errors.......

If thats the case, Can the upgrade script be modified to automatically disable it?
Thats what was done with the Sidebar widgets plugin:
http://trac.wordpress.org/browser/trunk/wp-admin/includes/upgrade.php?rev=5965#L1225

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> On 9/20/07, Christine Davis <christine at neato.co.nz> wrote:
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>> UTW as-is, is being disbanded in wordpress 2.3;  but its interesting
>> functionality* is being split off into smaller, more managable plugins.
>>
>> *suggestions [is on wordpress.org], admin [is with my beta testers] and
>> rendering [is causing me to pull my hair out].  There might be others (:
>> I'm looking at you, tag entry.
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>> On 9/21/07, Aaron Brazell <abrazell at b5media.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > There is a question I'm getting a lot as I've been doing some
>> > promotion of the next release of WordPress. The topic of built in
>> > tags and whether UTW and the other tagging plugins will still work
>> > with WP 2.3. The recommended approach, at least from my perspective,
>> > is to disable tag plugins and use the WP tags but there are
>> > legitimate reasons why some users might want to use one of the
>> > existing tag plugins. Can anyone clarify for me what can be expected
>> > to happen with these other tagging plugins. Will they still work,
>> > should a blogger choose, along side WP tags since they use different
>> > tables?
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