HI Owen, Sounds fine, but please document the schema thoroughly.
Also, please be sure that some elements are allowed only for plugins/ themes. Ex. I still need to be able to include themeconfig in the xml. ~Arthus On Jun 2, 2009, at 1:11 AM, Owen Winkler wrote: > > Hi folks. > > We need to move the Info method of Plugin and Theme up to Pluggable so > that they use the same stuff. As a result, we need to form the XML > used > to define plugin/theme info a little better. As a result of changing > the format, all existing themes will explode. > > This has to be done, because the areas that are published for a theme > need to go in that XML, and the XML needs to be stable. > > I want to do this this week. I can publish a schema for the XML on > the > wiki (Relax?), and others can look it over. > > The schema should allow for themes and plugins to use the same > format of > xml data, since they're both Pluggable. Soon after the info method of > plugins would go away to be replaced by the Pluggable info method, > meaning plugins wouldn't need to execute any more to get their infos. > It would just use the xml file instead (although the plugin should > still > be sandboxed so it's known to work). > > Your consideration is appreciated. > > Owen > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/habari-dev -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
