[wp-hackers] wordpress auto update

[Dion Hulse (dd32)]

This is a little harder than one might think..
For example, users who rely on FTP Upgrades would need to store their FTP
credentials somewhere WordPress could access them, not a good move IMO.
Not only that, but not all plugins are compatible, yadda yadda, it's a
complidated situation and not as straight forward as it is for desktop
applications.. Web Applications are running in restrictive environments
which have umpteen different configurations.

It's not something I expect you'll see in core anytime soon, however, with
some improvements in 3.2, I can see a plugin offering point-release updates
(ie. 3.2 => 3.2.1, or 3.2.1 => 3.2.2) not that difficult at all and quite
seemless.. Watch out, you've got me thinking, I'll be trying out a proof of
concept plugin on that once 3.2.1 is released (as there'll be a point
release to test with then..)

Dion

On 2 July 2011 00:44, Konrad Karpieszuk <kkarpieszuk at gmail.com> wrote:

> hello :)
>
> question for wordpress core developers: have you considered the
> feature that wordpress will auto update automatically in the
> background? In the way, that blog admin dont have to even log into
> wp-admin. If new version of wordpress is available, will be silently
> installed.
>
> Thats my small idea in those days when many software is going thiss
> way (chrome, firefox...). :)
>
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> (en) regards / (pl) pozdrawiam
> Konrad Karpieszuk
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