File inconsistencies in v1.9.0

  • Resolved Paul

    (@paultgoodchild)


    4 years, 8 months ago

    Hi guys,

    I’ve built a public API for building checksums/hashes of www.remarpro.com plugins and themes – just like you can with WordPress core.

    So when a new www.remarpro.com plugin version is released (tagged), then we can serve MD5 checksums for that version.

    But, and this is all-too-common, if a developer tags a release, and then comes along later and updates the files within that tag on SVN, it breaks this API because the checksums we have for that tag are now different to what is on SVN.

    Some people will have 1 set of files, and another group will have another set of files, and there’s no way to serve accurate checksums to either, in a consistent manner.

    This problem arose with your v1.9.0 when you updated the files:

    • src/Providers/Mailgun/Options.php
    • src/Providers/PepipostAPI/Options.php

    By using tags, you’re already helping us (because believe or not, many devs don’t even bother with SVN tags).

    But could I ask you for a huge favour? Going forward, if you need to edit files in a release, could you fire out a quick minor version release? This will help keep our API healthy and useable without inconsistencies.

    There’s no obligation of course for you to do this, but I hope you’ll take our request on-board – it’d be a huge help!

    Our public API for hashes is below if you want to check it out. Also, if you would even be interested to get involved with our effort to provide checksums for premium plugins, that would be great, too.

    WPHashes.com

    Many thanks!
    Paul.

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  • Plugin Author Slava Abakumov

    (@slaffik)

    Hey Paul,

    We will definitely consider not doing that in the future. The change in those 2 files was not worth a new patch release for 1+ million active sites but imo was worth enough to push it as is directly (for some reason my build-system missed that change ??) quickly after the release (so the vast majority will update the plugin and get those changes).

    Thanks for getting in touch with us!

    PS I’m actually happy that someone appreciated that we are using tags ??

    Thread Starter Paul

    (@paultgoodchild)

    Heya Slava,

    Thanks for getting back to me and I appreciate you being open to this request.

    I know it doesn’t feel like it’s worth it, but if it’s so-close after the release, chances are small that many sites will have updated anyways.

    I know it’s definitely easier to just push to the tag for simplicity, I completely get it. I’m hoping you’ll reconsider for next time. ??

    Thanks again, and yes… tags are definitely the way to go! ??
    Cheers!

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