[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #11281: Install any plugin version from the admin

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#11281: Install any plugin version from the admin
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 Reporter:  scribu           |       Owner:     
     Type:  feature request  |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal           |   Milestone:  3.0
Component:  Upgrade/Install  |     Version:     
 Severity:  normal           |    Keywords:     
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Comment(by TobiasBg):

 Replying to [comment:17 dd32]:

 > If there was an ability to mark certain version of your plugin as
 "obsolete" or "insecure" would that change anything? (out of interest)

 Well, for me personally, all old versions of my plugins are obsolete.
 Because they potentially are buggy. Therefore I don't like users
 downgrading to it, because they will ask *me* with their support
 questions.
 Then (as mentioned by someone before) some data structure within the
 plugin (data storing, option storing, whatever) might change and is not
 revertable. So I would also need "impossible to downgrade".

 (I like the idea of marking old versions as "insecure" though, because
 that might get people to upgrade faster.)

 My point is: With this "feature" we are putting a lot more
 "administrative" work on plugin authors (mark versions as "something",
 downgrading users have support questions, downgrading users lose their
 data and are mad, ...).
 And for what? Because a few users are to shy of downloading the zip-file
 and installing it manually? This gain for few is just not worth the
 trouble of many.
 This effort is better to be put into avoiding the need to downgrade by
 better testing or whatever.

 Regarding usage of this feature for testing development versions (like
 westi's plugin does for core): If one wants to do this, he should also be
 able to install the dev release manually. But the average user will just
 be confused.

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