[pmwiki-users] extra guidelines for recipe publishing

[H. Fox]

On 4/9/07, Hans <design5 at softflow.co.uk> wrote:
> Monday, April 9, 2007, 10:18:41 AM, Hans wrote:
>
> > Maybe all I am missing is some tricks how to construct a zip archive
> > with the correct path information for all files, which can unzip into
> > several folders, i.e. into cookbook/ and pub/ and creating a subfolder
> > in each.
>
> I like Hagan's package (=your recipe name) proposal from
> http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/ModuleGuidelines :
[...]
>
> okay I have not understood the sentence below,
> I don't know what that command is, nor how to execute it. Perhaps Unix?
> I am on a Windoze machine. (I also often get confused with terminology like
> bar.php, baz.php and the foo things.)
>
> "This way, the files can be copied recursively ("cp -r foo-0.1/* pmwiki")
> from within their package directory into the PmWiki top-level directory
> and fit into the appropriate directory."

It's a somewhat clumsy way of saying "install a recipe by copying in
the same manner as you would when upgrading to a new version of
PmWiki".  With that in mind, the administrator could also use FTP to
easily install / upgrade the recipe (unzip on desktop, then drag/drop
over to the server).

Hagan