Item2137: configure fails to show many many plugins in Find More Extensions

Some recent change make Configure fail to show quite many extensions in Find More extensions.

It finds 103 and we have something like 200.

It is in EXTENSIONS.pm the code

                if (defined $page) {
                    $page =~ s/(?:^|\n){(.*?)\n\s*}(\n|$)/
                      $this->_parseRow($1, $place)/ges;

that fails.

In the FastReport

{ topic: AntiWikiSpamPlugin
 description:  lightweight wiki spam prevention
 compatibility: 
 classification: Security
 version: 1741 (04 Jan 2009) 
 release:
 }
{ topic: ApprovalPlugin
 description:  Defines a set of states for one or more topics, with each state requiring approval by one or more users.
 compatibility: Foswiki >=1.0
 classification: Workflow automation
 version: 3923 (2009-05-16) 
 release: 1.0 
 }

the AntiWikiSpamPlugin is parsed but the ApprovalPlugin is not

If I change the code to

$page =~ s/{(.*?)}/$this->_parseRow($1, $place)/ges;

it works again. This is the code from 1.0.6

We need a fix to FastReport to fix this in addition to fixing configure because otherwise I have to release a 1.0.8. It is not enough to just apply my fix.

-- KennethLavrsen - 22 Sep 2009

I tried for the hell of it to add an extra $n to the search format in FastReport. That seems to work.

I have tested in 1.0.4 and in 1.0.7.

That will calm down things for now

-- KennethLavrsen - 22 Sep 2009

Checked in the old version of the code. It works. I do not understand why it was changed, or how that was tested.

Please do not remove the $n from FastReport. We have to live with that from now on.

-- KennethLavrsen - 22 Sep 2009