Tuesday, April 10, 2007, 8:34:24 AM, H. wrote: > I believe when I wrote that proposal and created the accompanying > "recipe jumpstart" archives (some time ago) I changed from a "just > unpack" procedure to the "unpack, then copy" one for several reasons. > Here are a few:
> 1) It's a bit scary to encourage people to unzip a directory tree of > files directly into the PmWiki root, don't you think? Scary or not, it is a reasonable method, especially if files are unpacked into the recipe's own subfolders. > 2) It permits easy comparison of old and new versions of a recipe. Yes. But you end up having perhaps lots of old unpacked versions sitting somewhere. I just deleted 20 or more unpacked pmwiki versions! > 3) It makes reverting to a previous version of a recipe easier, should > the need (suddenly) arise. One could go back to an older compressed archive file and unpack it again. Still, your suggestion is a pretty safe method. But speaking as recipe author I trying it first time I found it was a lot of extra work to get a packed recipe version ready for upload. Basically I have to keep the files for the upload release version synchronised with my actual installed recipe files. Maybe I will get used to it, but it doubles the work and ther eare possibilities of errors due to forgetting synchronising some part of the recipe. ~Hans _______________________________________________ pmwiki-users mailing list [email protected] http://www.pmichaud.com/mailman/listinfo/pmwiki-users
