[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #22303: Please parse a "vendor" file

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#22303: Please parse a "vendor" file
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 Reporter:  remicollet    |       Owner:
     Type:  enhancement   |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal        |   Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  General       |     Version:
 Severity:  normal        |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  dev-feedback  |
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Changes (by MikeSchinkel):

 * cc: mike@… (added)


Comment:

 This seems like a perfectly reasonable request and approach, although the
 discussion of bundling confused me and I wonder if it's mention was a
 distraction from the goal of the ticket?

 Unless I misunderstand the request this simply allows Fedora or any other
 distro to take a '''standard WordPress version download''' and add distro-
 specific support and/or optimizations in a separate file that the distro
 maintains. Using his example I can see better SMTP integration as being
 very helpful; I know having to deal with that on a plugin level can be a
 real pain for non-technical end-user bloggers. So this seems like a much
 better approach than forcing the distro to create a fork which means they
 then have to intercept the WordPress core update process to reapply their
 fork which I can see as very problematic.

 With his approach this vendor file can go in the `/wp-content/` directory
 and updates simply won't affect it.  I can see potential security concerns
 if the vendor file needs to be updated but would think a discussion of how
 to address those concerns would be more productive than having them fork
 and maintain a WordPress download.

 Also, I think the proposal I made on #22251 would be helpful if this
 proposal gets any traction.

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