I was thinking that the Module Manager should only show one version per module, being the latest/stable. If some users want pre-releases or whatever they are called, he/she could download them from the dev-area. MM should however not propose to install them, as most users want modules to work out-of-the-box.
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Module Manager should only show the latest and stable version of modules
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Re: Module Manager should only show the latest and stable version of modules
Yeah, ModuleManager (and it's partner ModuleRepository) need work.
Personally I think that all of the modules of the same name should be grouped together, ideally in a neat ajaxy tree type thing so that only the latest version was shown by default, and there was some kind of an 'expand' link to show other versions.
Additionally, it should only show versions that are theoretically compatible with your current version of CMS. I don't think this happens currently (and I wrote it
TSW found a neat ftp class that'd allow installing of all modules via ftp (supply an ftp host, username, password, directory) and everything gets uploaded via ftp. this would be a cool way of doing it too. it'd solve problems encounered by noob users who don't have knowledge about permissions, usernames, groups, umasks and all that nice stuff (even though they should).
Another method of solving these permissions issues may be to just have some hooks that 'blow open permissions' before a module is installed, and 'restores them' afterwards.....
Just my thoughts.
Personally I think that all of the modules of the same name should be grouped together, ideally in a neat ajaxy tree type thing so that only the latest version was shown by default, and there was some kind of an 'expand' link to show other versions.
Additionally, it should only show versions that are theoretically compatible with your current version of CMS. I don't think this happens currently (and I wrote it
TSW found a neat ftp class that'd allow installing of all modules via ftp (supply an ftp host, username, password, directory) and everything gets uploaded via ftp. this would be a cool way of doing it too. it'd solve problems encounered by noob users who don't have knowledge about permissions, usernames, groups, umasks and all that nice stuff (even though they should).
Another method of solving these permissions issues may be to just have some hooks that 'blow open permissions' before a module is installed, and 'restores them' afterwards.....
Just my thoughts.
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