Comments on: Some installer tasks http://leuksman.com/log/2007/06/27/some-installer-tasks/ reticula, electronica, & oddities Thu, 20 Nov 2008 20:06:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Rob Church http://leuksman.com/log/2007/06/27/some-installer-tasks/#comment-1516 Rob Church Wed, 27 Jun 2007 19:22:30 +0000 http://leuksman.com/log/2007/06/27/some-installer-tasks/#comment-1516 With respect to detecting whitespace and the like, Tim suggested (a few minutes after the bug was opened) that we could just buffer the output generated when the configuration (and extension) files were loaded, and discard the output. This seems like quite an elegant solution, although I gather he mentioned some issues with old output buffer initialisation left over in LocalSettings.php files which might conflict with this. With respect to detecting whitespace and the like, Tim suggested (a few minutes after the bug was opened) that we could just buffer the output generated when the configuration (and extension) files were loaded, and discard the output.

This seems like quite an elegant solution, although I gather he mentioned some issues with old output buffer initialisation left over in LocalSettings.php files which might conflict with this.

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