[dokuwiki] Re: A small idea
- From: "Balazs Attila-Mihaly \(Cd-MaN\)" <x_at_y_or_z@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: dokuwiki@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 00:28:54 -0700 (PDT)
> Although I understand your point (I have to update some plugins too to reflect
> that change too, and I already see the forum been hit by a wave of "where does
> this '%' come from" threads ;)), I think that the introduction of a new $conf
> setting, just to prevent "cosmetical" bugs in plugins, would lead to a much
> more unwanted situation, namely that the plugin authors don't even notice that
> something has changed and that they need to update their plugins accordingly.
This means that a subset of users will be stuck in a situation like "I can't
update my wiki because the new release is incompatible with plugin X, but the
author of X has gone away and I'm not a programmer". What about a middle ground
like: make this an option but set it to off by default (ie. there is a checkbox
in the administration interface where it says "auto-generate old date format
string" which is unchecked by default)?
PS. A small critique: it is bad practice (imho) to change the interface of a
software (and by interface I mean the programmatic way of interacting with it,
not the GUI) in a way which is purposefully incompatible with the old one (like
changing the format of a configuration variable). Even more so when the given
interface is semi-public and it is known that third-party code relies on it.
Given how flexible dynamic programming languages like PHP are, it is much nicer
to introduce a new property with the desired meaning and let the old property
alone.
Best regards.
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