[pmwiki-users] extra guidelines for recipe publishing

[H. Fox]

On 4/10/07, Patrick R. Michaud <pmichaud at pobox.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 08:51:13AM +0100, Hans wrote:
> > But speaking as recipe author I trying it first time I found it was a lot
> > of extra work to get a packed recipe version ready for upload.
>
> Yes.  This is another reason I like creating archives that
> unpack into the pmwiki directory directly -- creating the
> archive is easy from a command line:
>
>     zip -r package.zip cookbook/package.php cookbook/package pub/package
>
> I do understand the advantages of packing into a separate
> package-0.01/ directory, however.  This is one of those things
> where I've decided not to endorse any particular standard but
> let recipe authors decide what is best for themselves and others
> using the recipe.

I refactored the Module Guidelines page, placing my proposed "simpler
approach" (compared to what was there, that is) in the main body of
the page and including the above method as a yet simpler alternative
to that.  I also added a section for a single-.php-file approach and
made a few other changes.

Hagan