PluginsInstallationStatus contains notes regarding installation issues.

I installed in MAIN (not in DEVELOP, note), and used the pluginsbenchmark script to get the following results (reformatted for accessibility)

TWiki Plugin benchmark utility, version 11 Nov 2004. (Time::HiRes is installed and used)

Draw your own conclusions.

-- CrawfordCurrie - 22 Nov 2004

Thanks Crawford.

Altogether a much better process than expecting the plugin authors to do it: if we change the criteria we'd otherwise be expecting the plugin authors to each retest.

Furthermore we can prove someone is telling the truth (or more pertinently, that there is nothing kookie about their testing environments).

Now... for analysis of results...

PS. Crawford: I changed TWiki.<nop>. to Plugins.

-- MartinCleaver - 22 Nov 2004

The variability of TWiki...... those times above 100% shows how much can the time vary across runs....

But what is really puzzling me is: Are really all those plugins that fast, is the script flawed or is the experiments that are flawed?

-- RafaelAlvarez - 22 Nov 2004

IMHO this benchmark methodology is not very useful. Most plugins don't actually do anything unless some tags are there, or the user invokes some action. In most cases, the only thing being measured here is the sum of the initPlugin plus 4 calls to commonTagsHandler + the compile time (or a subset thereof. And as you spotted, this is swamped by the randomness that perl injects.

On the other hand, I suspect my notes above may be useful in writing plugin appraisals.

-- CrawfordCurrie - 23 Nov 2004

As the maintainer of XpTrackerPlugin, I have to ask: which are the ridiculous permissions in the zip? You mean file permissions?

-- RafaelAlvarez - 23 Nov 2004

Rafael: Yes, -rw------- on everything

-- CrawfordCurrie - 23 Nov 2004

weird... could it be because I packet it in Windows? (time to repackage)

-- RafaelAlvarez - 24 Nov 2004

refactored and added to the installation notes to PluginsInstallationStatus from my experiences working on the TWikiSourceForgeDistribution

-- WillNorris - 07 Oct 2004, 25 Nov 2004