Item8524: extender.pl still uses TWIKI environment variables

Priority:	CurrentState:	AppliesTo:	Component:	WaitingFor:
Low	Closed	Engine	extender.pl

extender.pl was not updated to use FOSWIKI environment variables: It references $ENV{TWIKI_PACKAGES} for a local plugin repository.

-- GeorgeClark - 14 Feb 2010

Refactoring Extender.pl into Package.pm, this feature was dropped. Package.pm now looks locally in the root directory of the installation. For the _installer file it also looks in working/configure/pkgdata

Also noticed that the original extender.pl also looked in the twikiplugins/ directory for packages.

-- GeorgeClark - 09 Apr 2010

These settings are not documented in current Foswiki documentation. Deprecating the TWIKI_PACKAGES environment variable, and the twikiplugins/ directory as well, These should be documented in the 1.1 release notes. zip / tar files for extensions are not saved locally. The are retrieved into the /tmp file location and installed from there. The _installer file is now saved in the working/configure/pkgdata directory.

-- GeorgeClark - 09 Apr 2010

For the end users and admins this is not visible. It is a developer improvement important for extension developers.

So instead of Waiting for Release I put it in Closed as this is not important for the release note of 1.1 which is mainly for end users and admins.

Thanks for the fix George. Instead of this I put Item3154 in Waiting For Release which affects the admins and is a happy message for them.

-- KennethLavrsen - 09 Apr 2010