IchBin wrote: > Patrick R. Michaud wrote: >> On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 10:45:33PM +0200, Petko Yotov wrote: >>> On Saturday 19 May 2007 21:55, IchBin wrote: >>>> Just wondering about recipes and their updates. Once a recipe has been >>>> updated ala emergency fix(s) or just a regular cycle are announcements >>>> written out to: >>>> >>>> gmane.comp.web.wiki.pmwiki.announce, >>>> gamin.comp.web.wiki.pmwiki.devel or >>>> here in gamin.comp.web.wiki.pmwiki.user >>>> >>>> To new to know... >> Recipe authors are welcome to send announcements to pmwiki-announce. That >> list is "moderated", so that messages wait for my approval before being >> sent out, but I'll generally approve the message as soon as I see it. >> >>> No, they are not, except for extremely big security problems. Most of the >>> recipe authors just humbly update the recipe's documentation or talk-page, >>> and it is better to have these on your watchlist, and check the recipe's >>> release notes. >>> >>> Personnally, I use a "watchlist" combined with a "notify" and recieve an >>> email >>> about once a day if some of the pages in the watchlist were changed. See >>> how >>> to set this for yourself at: >>> http://pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/WatchLists >>> http://pmwiki.org/wiki/PmWiki/Notify >> There is also the RecipeCheck recipe, at >> http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/RecipeCheck , which allows a site to >> quickly check the status of installed recipes and see if any updates >> are available. >> >> Pm > > Thanks pm, I have and do used the RecipeCheck recipe since you split it > off of the analyze recipe for localhost use. And this "watchlist" and > "notify" look interesting. Guess I am asking because I am from the Java > area hence the Java newsgroups. I use to live in those groups. I need to > get the feel for other newsgroups, etc... I guess. > > This area is really laid back which is great. I do have concerns that > recipes docs do not get updated. Simple example I just ran into. The > Total counter recipe. I had posted problems with it sometime ago but no > on takers to help. > > Their are three version mentioned in the docs (1.5, 1.8 and 1.8a) two of > which are available. I have been using v1.5 for a while. I realy wanted > to use 1.8a but at that time when I installed it I lost all of my prior > counts. That seems some what useless. So I walked away from it. Long > story short the person who updated to version 1.8a (or maybe from 1.5 to > 1.8 who nows) did not document that they changed the total counter file > names where the totals where persisted. So naturally you still had the > totals but not in the newly derive files. > > For the RecipeCheck this is what it gives me: > > If I name it 'totalcounter.php' RecipeCheck gives me: > > Recipe Cookbook:TotalCounter > local unknown (totalcounter.php) > pmwiki.org 1.8a - 21 January 2007 > > If I name it 'totalcounter_1_8a.php' it does not show up in the list of > RecipeCheck recipes.... > > Another recipe: DownloadManager > > Recipe Cookbook:DownloadManager > local unknown (downloadman.php) > pmwiki.org 0.4 - 16.05.2007 > > I do have to say the other 10 recipes I use RecipeCheck'ed nicely. >
Sorry, I forgot to mention another recipe. I just downloaded the latest version to update. This is what RecipeCheck found out: Recipe Cookbook:ProtectEmail local $Rev$ pmwiki.org $Rev: 49 $ -- Thanks in Advance... http://weconsulting.org IchBin, Philadelphia, Pa, USA http://ichbinquotations.awardspace.com ______________________________________________________________________ 'If there is one, Knowledge is the "Fountain of Youth"' -William E. Taylor, Regular Guy (1952-) _______________________________________________ pmwiki-users mailing list [email protected] http://www.pmichaud.com/mailman/listinfo/pmwiki-users
