Plugin update request

[opajaap]

It would be very handy to have the possibillity to run the update plugin feature while the plugin seems to be up to rev.

I update the plugin often with relatively small changes/hotfixes.

I do not want to change the version number as there is no need for all the installations to update immediately.

I now have to explain many taimes how to de-activate, delete, and re-install and re-activate the plugin (or how to install a development version).

When i check a plugin on the plugins admin page and choose to update it, it will not do it because it is up to rev. I would like to be able to update it anyway.

Updating plugin files without bumping the version is a Bad Idea. Therefore, we shouldn't encourage this practice by making it easy to do in WP core.

I would suggest moving stable versions to svn tags and then just pointing users to the dev version.

There was a meta-plugin that enabled users to easily install the latest dev version of a plugin, but I don't know what became of it.