[wp-hackers] Plugin Challenge: Post from an iPhone - Challenge submission

[Jared Bangs]

On 9/26/07, Jared Bangs <jared at pacific22.com> wrote:
> On 9/26/07, Jared Bangs <jared at pacific22.com> wrote:
> > Ah, that's good to know. I'll fix that.
> >
> > On 9/26/07, Viper007Bond <viper at viper007bond.com> wrote:
> > > Proper etiquette (according to the Codex) for multiple plugin files is to
> > > have _all_ files inside the plugin's folder, i.e. like this:
> > >
> > > /wp-content/plugins/MobileAdmin/MobileAdmin.php
> > > etc.
>
> Actually, before I do that, it would seem to contradict this statement
> on the Extend FAQ [1]:
> "If you have complicated plugin with lots of files, you can of course
> organize them into subdirectories, but the readme file and the root
> plugin file should go straight into trunk/."
>
> That makes me hesitant to move the root plugin file into a subfolder,
> especially since extend pulls some data out of that file to generate
> the page.
>
> Can anyone more familiar with the inner workings of extend lend some
> insight on this?
>
> Thanks,
> Jared
>
> [1] http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/about/faq/
>

I guess I could just throw everything that's currently in the
subfolder out into trunk, and then the extend system will generate one
directory containing all the files for cleaner installation purposes.
Perhaps that would be the best way to achieve the desired result...

Sorry, talking to myself...

- Jared