Adding requirements to plugins, ideas after reading #20

[eighty4]

Didn't feel I should replay to #20 with this so I created a new post.

Since many plugins might need the same 3rdparty stuff plugins should
have some sort of way to use "requirements". It would be nice if the
plugin author could specify what 3rdparty stuff is needed for the
plugin to run and if plugin authors could upload those seperatly in
some sort of wrapper. I.e. do something like this in the plugins xml

<requirement>
<name>jQuery</name>
<version>1.2.3</version>
</requirement>

This would then (not sure how) be downloaded into /user/3rdparty if it
doesn't already exist. Not sure how this would be done since managing
all 3rdparty wrappers would be a big project. But it would be really
really nice.

[Arthus Erea]

Just use <requires><feature>jquery</feature></requires>