[pmwiki-users] Recipes and their updates [was: As we just talked about (:pagelist:) ...]

[IchBin]

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 $



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