[development] jQuery 1.2 is released

[Derek Wright]

On Sep 12, 2007, at 2:17 PM, Larry Garfield wrote:

> A single Drupal module to act as a controller / central repository  
> for jQuery plugins, so that we don't have a dozen Drupal modules  
> with the 20 lines of PHP (or whatever) needed to bootstrap the  
> module just to call drupal_add_js().

Just to be clear, what I was proposing in the other thread about  
update(_status)? + jQuery plugins was that each jQuery plugin would  
have a .info file, and an *empty* .module file, only so that it  
showed up like a module with respect to update(_status)? and that the  
existing client code could check for newer versions of the plugins.   
My proposal wasn't at all concerned with the code to actually call  
drupal_add_js(), and I agree that a single plugin-manager would be  
better than a bunch of duplicated code for that.

That said, the single plugin manager might be able to handle the case  
that the empty .module files was meant to address, and populate the  
{system} table with some new records for each plugin, just so that  
update(_status)? knows they exist and can look for new releases...

Alternatively, we *could* modify the update(_status)? code to better  
handle this case, and, for example:

a) allow checking for updates on modules that are present on a site  
but not enabled (i think there's already a feature request about  
this, in fact)

b) allow it to find .info files directly, not just the .info files  
associated with modules (and, in D6 update.module, themes), so that  
*anything* with a well-formed .info file could be included in the  
available updates report.

Cheers,
-Derek (dww)