I've been noticing that there seems to be a lot of interest and momentum lately surrounding plugn/theme dependencies. I am very excited about this. WordPress desperately needs a core dependency solution so that we can move the route of plugins being tiny interoperable building blocks, like what we've seen with NPM.
Here's a running list of the stuff I've been seeing lately about WordPress dependencies:
- Strategies to implement selective loading of plugins on StackExchange
- Nacin's suggestion that Dependencies be tackled for GSoC: > Dependencies. Allow plugins and themes to be dependent of one another. A theme could require a plugin or example, and WordPress would handle installing that plugin when you install that theme. Similar idea: Compatibility metrics. (Or: Can we be sure it is safe to upg