[wp-trac] Re: [WordPress Trac] #5560: Integrate Automatic Upgrade

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#5560: Integrate Automatic Upgrade
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 Reporter:  keithdsouza  |        Owner:  anonymous
     Type:  enhancement  |       Status:  new      
 Priority:  normal       |    Milestone:  2.6      
Component:  General      |      Version:  2.5      
 Severity:  normal       |   Resolution:           
 Keywords:               |  
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Comment (by darkdragon):

 I'm moving towards pluggable functions, since this would allow for my svn
 system (I would want to use the !WordPress Plugin Respository to checkout
 and update the plugins). So basically, it could probably forward.

 #4779 has working, unit tested code that fully supports many file system
 methods and is extensible. So I haven't received any feedback on that
 ticket on what improvements need to be made. It functionality into the
 core would allow for downloading a zip file.

 However there are only a few methods to unzip on PHP systems.

  1. If *nix, using the system function (if not disabled) to unzip the
 file.
  1. Two zip extensions are available to test for. The Zip extension does
 quite a good job and is very easy. I would recommend using that.
  1. Some PHP class that combines all three above methods.

 The reason I would advocate SVN is that even through, many users won't use
 it, building an installer for SVN can come later and be a plugin or the
 user can checkout the repository by shell and manage WordPress
 administration from there. Many testers also use Subversion, so haven't a
 one click upgrader that no one else can find and run would be useful.

 It is also to be complete. The only other method besides FTP/HTTP and
 Subversion is PEAR. I also think Subversion upgrader would be both the
 easiest and more secure version (the upgrader can automatically add
 .htaccess rules to prevent looking into the .svn folders for the user).

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