[wp-hackers] Site Address during development

[Gavin Pearce]

Hi Mike,

Not a problem.  ;)

I think the advantages of this would help in many use cases and various
other CMS platforms already support it.

If I write the various patches, is there any reason why people would
vote "against" this change?

Thanks,
Gav

-----Original Message-----
From: wp-hackers-bounces at lists.automattic.com
[mailto:wp-hackers-bounces at lists.automattic.com] On Behalf Of Mike
Little
Sent: 03 September 2010 10:57
To: wp-hackers at lists.automattic.com
Subject: Re: [wp-hackers] Site Address during development

On 3 September 2010 10:35, Gavin Pearce <Gavin.Pearce at 3seven9.com>
wrote:

Gav,
Very sorry for attributing that to you, I was viewing both your reply
and
ErisDs at the same time when I pressed reply.



> We all understand that RSS needs absolute URLs, but surely WordPress
> core could use the wp-config.php or admin area settings when building
> the URL within feeds, or anywhere an absolute URL is needed?
>
> Yes, adds to overheads, but only very, very, very nominally.
>
>
The problem with any perceived problem like this, is that a very small
minority of WordPress users have this problem (i.e. moving sites), and
are,
in this case,  knowledgeable enough to overcome the problem.

Most WordPress users (11 million plus) do not move their sites, but *do*
have their sites read through feed readers, aggregated on other sites,
and
their podcasts listened to in iTunes.

So although the vocal developers on this list can see a need, in fact
their
use case for the problem is
a) a very tiny minority, and
b) only occurs once when a site is moved. All other times it is fine the
way
it works now.



Mike
-- 
Mike Little
http://zed1.com/
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