extra plug-in 'search pattern' advertised but out of use since 2014

[Zweihorn]

Please update the advertisement info text of this plug-in.

NB 🤣 Happy ten years and time flies ...

Obviously, the extra plug-in 'search pattern' is currently advertised but apparently out of use since the year 2014 and quite outdated. I would call this somewhat misleading and quite unfortunate.

The erroneous advertisement text "In combination with dokuwiki searchpattern plugin it is a lightweight task list management system." should be deleted asap, I presume.

Please find the output of the DokuWiki Extension Manager for the 'dokuwiki-plugin-todo' in a current 2024-02-06 "Kaos" install as below:

ref https://github.com/leibler/dokuwiki-plugin-todo/issues/26#issuecomment-46091351 from 2014

Furthermore, the section on "Lightweight Task Management System - Lists" could state the obsolescence of the a.m. plug-in explictily, if I may.

Lightweight Task Management System - Lists

The new version (since version 2014-03-17) of the todo plugin allows to create an easy to use task management system to collect all todos from all pages on a single page.

Thus, I felt free to add some text for clarity as: "The former extra plug-in 'search pattern' was intentionally made obsolete by this version."

ref https://www.dokuwiki.org/plugin:todo#lightweight_task_management_system_-_lists

Keep on the good work and prosper.

Hope this helps. 🌻

[Zweihorn]

Last not least using the ~~INFO:syntaxplugins~~ macro on a wiki page would state the same.

Poor newbie user people, I would understand any confusion.

[einhirn]

Great job spotting outdated information in the plugin description

Back when the feature was new, this update instruction was added to the plugin:todo page:

Update Instructions: Since version 2014-03-17 the searchpattern integration is deprecated. Use the new TODOLIST built-in method.

But I removed note in February 2020 - probably because that change was so long ago.

Anyway, I went ahead and changed the wording of the notice you added to the plugins page, because your addition sounded as if we intended to make the searchpattern plugin itself obsolete with this feature - which obviously isn't the case. We just deprecated it for the listing of todos because of incompatibilities.

[Zweihorn]

Looks good to me and THX.

[Zweihorn]

@einhirn Please consider a release for availability as an usual DokuWiki Plug-In update at your earliest convenience.

[einhirn]

[X] done. I guess I was waiting for some code change before creating a new release - but making a maintenance release without code change is probably better than waiting indefinitely. Maybe there are people out there still trying to make this work with searchpattern because of the outdated infos and can't or don't know how to tell us about it, like you did.

[einhirn]

It's not even a maintenance release any more - we still had a PR with a new feature in the pipeline, which just needed some cleanup before merging.

[Zweihorn]

173 - I presume

New priority feature? Even better. THX for your efforts and pointing this out.

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