Choice -- yeah, but I can't imagine it would be do difficult to insert an option to turn the function off.
Here's what I picture: a person had a more tech-central friend install a copy of WordPress on his hosting. The user continues to use it for a while, knowing that as long as he pays the hosting bill, it stays up. Then comes a security flaw with the code that he's using. His friend isn't keeping track of his blog, and how should he know that it needs to be upgraded? This is a real situation to me. When I design websites for clients, I freqently use WordPress as a CMS. In two years, when there's a vulnerability with some code used in 1.5 or 2.0, how should that user know? In my case, I can include the plugin with the install, but I think there are enough users to justify this as a native function. On 1/22/06, Podz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sean Hayford O'Leary wrote: > > Could you list the pros and cons? > > > > + > One off install. > Prominent message > > - > Prominent message if you choose not to upgrade > If wherever the information is grabbed from updates before the dev blog > post it could lead to confusion (I don't know the who / how) > No explanation of the version (which there should be. For instance 1.5.2 > is still a stable product so upgrading for the new code is advised if > you want that, but it's safe to stay where you are.) > If they then switch the plugin off, they could miss something important > (if the system were a little more flexible). > > Some sort of messaging would be good, but then that's what the dash was > for - and the contents of that have been removed or altered by many. > > My feelings are that a new release (or update) generates a lot of buzz > which most should hear about. Maybe also some people choose not to > upgrade and for others with older code, there is no way of telling them > automatically. > > P. > _______________________________________________ > wp-testers mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.automattic.com/mailman/listinfo/wp-testers > -- Sean Hayford O'Leary http://sdho.hayfordoleary.com
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