Item8524: extender.pl still uses TWIKI environment variables
Priority: Low
Current State: Closed
Released In: 1.1.0
Target Release: minor
Applies To: Engine
Component: extender.pl
Branches:
extender.pl was not updated to use FOSWIKI environment variables: It references
$ENV{TWIKI_PACKAGES} for a local plugin repository.
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GeorgeClark - 14 Feb 2010
Refactoring Extender.pl into Package.pm, this feature was dropped. Package.pm now looks locally in the root directory of the installation. For the _installer file it also looks in
working/configure/pkgdata
Also noticed that the original extender.pl also looked in the
twikiplugins/
directory for packages.
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GeorgeClark - 09 Apr 2010
These settings are not documented in current Foswiki documentation. Deprecating the
TWIKI_PACKAGES
environment variable, and the
twikiplugins/
directory as well, These should be documented in the 1.1 release notes.
zip
/
tar
files for extensions are not saved locally. The are retrieved into the
/tmp
file location and installed from there. The
_installer
file is now saved in the
working/configure/pkgdata
directory.
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GeorgeClark - 09 Apr 2010
For the end users and admins this is not visible. It is a developer improvement important for extension developers.
So instead of Waiting for Release I put it in Closed as this is not important for the release note of 1.1 which is mainly for end users and admins.
Thanks for the fix George. Instead of this I put
Item3154 in Waiting For Release which affects the admins and is a happy message for them.
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KennethLavrsen - 09 Apr 2010