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Forum: [Closed] Silly question but what does (fork) mean in the plugins menu?

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    • CommentAuthorbarfarf
    • CommentTimeOct 21st 2006
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    Greetings i am using 4.2 RC2 beta and in the plugins menu i see the word (fork) in after the plugin version. Does that mean you edited the plugin and made your own version? If so is their a changelog showing the benifits of the changes?

    thanks
    chris
    • CommentAuthorDenis
    • CommentTimeOct 21st 2006
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    Hi Chris,

    I mark 3rd party plugins in one of two ways:

    • edited means I've changed the plugin. I've invited the plugin's author to include the changes in the next version, and no new version has been released yet.

    • forked usually means the plugin author released a new version without including the change: He kept whichever UI flaw, security hole, conflict or bug I reported. At other times, it means the plugin author released a new version that introduces UI flaws, security holes, conflicts or bugs.

    I've no real change log, since I typically send my fixed plugin to the author with an outline of what was done. It sometimes means rewriting huge chunks of the code.

    D.

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