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omeka / plugin-Scripto

Adds the ability to transcribe items using the Scripto library.
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Upgrade plugin to Omeka 1.5 #5

Closed jimsafley closed 12 years ago

jimsafley commented 12 years ago

Omeka 1.5 will soon be released, and with it comes some changes that this plugin can implement:

  1. Omeka_Plugin_Abstract: extend ScriptoPlugin off of this class
  2. Map file display strategy to filename extension when MIME type is not found: and with it, fix #3

One downside to this is that existing Omeka instances would have to upgrade to 1.5 for the plugin to work. I'm on the fence whether this is acceptable. On one hand we should encourage everyone to upgrade; on the other, some users may not want to. This plugin is still unreleased, save for some testing installations, so upgrading should not be a problem for existing users.

sheilabrennan commented 12 years ago

Good question about version requirements.

My opinion:

We had a few testers but not many, so I think the effect of requiring an upgrade it pretty small. Additionally if folks want to use Collection Tree--which has a broader potential user base, they will have to upgrade to 1.5. So, in this case, it doesn't seem terrible to ask users to upgrade to use Scripto.

patrickmj commented 12 years ago

Sounds good to me. There will be various other plugins ready soon that might also encourage people to upgrade, depending on how well they work in 1.4.