[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #13817: Reusing the Media Upload kit in a plugin

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#13817: Reusing the Media Upload kit in a plugin
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 Reporter:  simonwheatley    |       Owner:                
     Type:  feature request  |      Status:  new           
 Priority:  normal           |   Milestone:  Future Release
Component:  Media            |     Version:  3.0           
 Severity:  normal           |    Keywords:  dev-feedback  
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Comment(by filosofo):

 Replying to [comment:4 nacin]:
 > Fine idea in theory, but we're planning to entirely rewrite media/upload
 in a future release, which would probably include dropping thickbox in
 place of an inline uploader, etc... And so I think we would be disinclined
 to create more points for plugins to hook into a system when we'd break
 them in the next two major versions.
 >
 > I would think that given our current development philosophy, nothing
 we'd build wouldn't be extendable the way you'd want it.

 Well, this is a snippet from an IRC conversion on October 17, ''2008'',
 the first mention of media being handled in the next version of WordPress
 (that grep finds for me; public logs don't seem to go back that far).

 {{{
 Oct 17 03:34:56 <DD32>  Ah cool, At least there'll be something left over
 for 2.8
 Oct 17 03:35:15 <janeforshort>  media, media, media and fixing widget
 management, plus probably inbox
 }}}

 And since there's talk now of using 3.1 to focus on WordPress.org, qua the
 website not the app, that would put the great media revolution off at
 least until 3.2, which if history is a guide will arrive a year from now.

 All that to say, let's not trade concrete suggestions for vaporware.

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