[pmwiki-users] extra guidelines for recipe publishing

[Hans]

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