Are you thinking in allow some kind of dependency management for plugin loads in the core soon?

I see that now the plugin manifest supports some 'optional' parameters like recomends, requires, etc... --Diego 17:25, 9 February 2009 (UTC)

Diego, I do plan to introduce this sort of thing. Additionally I would like to have some sort of version recommendation - so plugins can specify the versions of other plugins they require as well as the version of elgg core.

This will allow some quite powerful plugin management features to be implemented along the lines of dpkg or similar.

As more plugins are written this is going to be more and more important.

... I of course make no promises as to when this will happen (basically when I get time), but I'd be happy to provide guidance to anyone who fancies a crack at writing a patch.

--Marcus 13:52, 11 February 2009 (UTC)