[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #10814: Plugin GUIDs

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#10814: Plugin GUIDs
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 Reporter:  mdawaffe     |       Owner:  westi                 
     Type:  enhancement  |      Status:  new                   
 Priority:  normal       |   Milestone:  2.9                   
Component:  Plugins      |     Version:  2.8.4                 
 Severity:  normal       |    Keywords:  has-patch dev-feedback
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 When a blog submits a list of plugins to the plugins update API, the API
 has no way of uniquely identifying the plugin; it's forced to do
 heuristics to make a best guess.

 There are occasionally plugins that have the same name, for example, that
 make these heuristics difficult to perfect.

 http://groups.google.com/group/wp-
 hackers/browse_thread/thread/69fa8f52249b13a0

 Attached is a patch to get_plugin_data() that adds a meta datum to the
 plugin header: "GUID".

 This GUID would just be the URL to the plugin's page on the WordPress.org
 Plugins Directory: e.g.

 http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/akismet/

 I propose "GUID" because it's intentionally opaque; I don't think people
 will confuse it for anything they're supposed to do anything with (as
 opposed to "Update URL" or "Update GUID", which make it sound like I go
 there for updates or need it before updating).

 I propose the URL because it gives us namespace::identifier for free and
 is understandable by humans and machines.

 The intention is that these GUID lines would be automatically generated by
 the Plugins Directory to reduce plugin author error.

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