[wp-hackers] WordPress.org Plugins Directory Sync Problems

[Michael D Adams]

On Sep 25, 2007, at 6:50 PM, John Blackbourn wrote:
> I know this isn't relevant to the topic at hand, but it was pointed
> out on #wordpress that the download link for the Paged Comments plugin
> [1] is broken. It returns a 404.
>
> Something to do with the brackets in the name of the tag [2] perhaps?
>
> [1] http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/paged-comments/
> [2] http://dev.wp-plugins.org/browser/paged-comments/tags

Yes.  Tags are currently only downloadable if they consist of only  
numbers and periods.  I've clarified the FAQ to address that.
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/about/faq/

It sounds like a bug though to me :)  I'll look into it more; we can  
make it a bit more flexible.
Michael