The main concern I have with this method is that any error along the process will not only break the plugin but it may also break the entire website. Even without an error that breaks the plugin, on larger plugins, you will have part of it working as the updated version and part of it the older version. Of course you can stop both of these by deactivating the plugin first, but without an extremely reliable uploader, even a little error can kill the entire website.
A second problem is that, over time, files change names or are removed from plugins. A straight uploader can't handle that, and doesn't know which ones should be removed and which should stay. Aaron On 3/16/08, Mr. Awesome <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just throwing this out, really the out-dated plugin files DO NOT need to > be deleted, they could just be overwritten or replaced by the newer > ones, by being uploaded OVER the originals. > > _______________________________________________ > wp-testers mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.automattic.com/mailman/listinfo/wp-testers > _______________________________________________ wp-testers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.automattic.com/mailman/listinfo/wp-testers
