Re: Is there a bug in folksonomy?

I think that's better done in the verification step and it's probably
something that plugins should do.

We have version information in the PyBlosxom code that specifies what
version of PyBlosxom is there.  Testing it is pretty easy to do.

However, I think the real problem you're seeing is that most plugins
are written and then forgotten and very few of them are maintained
over time.  I'm not really sure how to solve that problem, yet.  I'm
open to ideas, though.

/will


On 8/29/07, Asheesh Laroia <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, 29 Aug 2007, Will Guaraldi wrote:
>
> > I looked at the author's web-site and it looks like 1.4 is the last
> > release he did.
> >
> >   http://www.timfanelli.com/projects/folksonomy_py.txt
>
> Will and other maintainers,
>
> Is it possible to have some explicit mechanism for detecting which
> pyblosxom API version the programmer was using?  That way, when people
> stumble across old plugins, they can see clearly that it's too stale to
> use.
>
> I would suggest passing a mandatory keyword argument for all the callbacks
> that goes something like api_version='1.3' - if this argument is missing,
> pyblosxom shows an error page informing the user that a plugin is stale
> and the path to it.  Starting doing it with the 2.0 series would be okay.
> Even better than a generic error message would be a note saying, "This
> callback uses version 1.3 of the cb_filelist API.  That is unchanged for
> version 2.0, so try just increasing the version number", or "This callback
> uses versoin 1.3 of the cb_filestat API.  That has changed since then; see
> http://pyblosxom.sourceforge.net/something for the current docs."
>
> This problem of old plugins was a huge problem for me as well as others
> I've helped set up pyblosxom.
>
> -- Asheesh.
>
> --
> /earth is 98% full ... please delete anyone you can.
>

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