Plug-in Question

Peter Nixon listuser at peternixon.net
Sat Jul 7 20:54:30 CEST 2007


On Fri 06 Jul 2007, Alan DeKok wrote:
> Stefan Winter wrote:
> > It's a long shot, but: wouldn't it make sense to clear the wording for
> > 2.0? I know, it would break all existing configs out there, but manually
> > working through the config is needed anyways...
> > I know that this wording startled me quite a bit when I was new here...
>
>   It's worth doing.
>
>   The problem is we can't call the post-authentication step "authorize",
> because that will confuse everyone upgrading from 1.x.
>
>   I think the default configuration should be "pre-auth", "auth", and
> "post-auth".  We can still accept "authorize" as a synonym for
> "pre-auth" in the short term.

Sounds good to me also. We have definitely made enough changes in 2.0 that 
one more small change like this will not add significantly more confusion 
and definitely seems worth it in the long run.

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