[Slashcode-development] Installing extra plugins

[Alessio B. <al...@al...>]

I have a specific problem, part of a more general one.

I am distributing the Italian translation as a theme (slashcode-it), it
gets installed in themes/ alongside slashcode. When the user goes to
create a new site it will choose either slashcode or other themes, but
only one. Ok. I am copying everything from slashcode into slashcode-it
so it's a drop-in replacement.

We need to translate plugins, too, so when the user runs
install-slashsite it will be prompted with a list of available plugins,
for example Search, Journal, Search-Italian and Journal-Italian. The
problem is that he can choose which plugins he wants (or "all") but in
fact he should only choose one max between Search*, one max between
Journal* etc. If two "conflicting" plugins are selected, the second one
will try to symlink in htdocs and fail, and will perform some INSERTs on
the database with no predictable behaviour, depending on the state of
the database as altered by the previous plugin.

Do we have to relay on the user being smart enough (ehm...) not to
choose conflicting plugins? Is there any other solution?

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