[wp-trac] Re: [WordPress Trac] #10190: Plugin Dependency Class API

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#10190: Plugin Dependency Class API
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 Reporter:  ShaneF          |       Owner:  ShaneF
     Type:  task (blessed)  |      Status:  new   
 Priority:  normal          |   Milestone:  2.9   
Component:  Plugins         |     Version:  2.9   
 Severity:  normal          |    Keywords:        
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Comment(by mikeschinkel):

 While I'm not ready to support inclusion of this specific patch as I'm
 having a discussion about doing something similar but more involved on wp-
 hackers I'd like to ask Denis-de-Bernardy why he thinks it better to
 depend on often inexperienced plugin authors to do version checking when
 much of it can be done in the core?

 Moving to the core increases consistency and robustness for the end user
 (who blames WordPress not the plugin when things go wrong) and doing so in
 the core allows for hooks to be defined for plugin authors to augment or
 override dependency determination thus making it more obvious to a plugin
 authors that they need to do dependency checking and also how to do it.

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