Making _get_plugin_filepath() public

Hello smarty-dev, the function _get_plugin_filepath() is considered internal by the convention that functions whose names start with an underscore are internal. On the other hand this function is useful if you have plugins that should inter-operate in some way. require_once $smarty->_get_plugin_filepath($type, $name); is even the proposed way to implement loading a plugin inside another plugin http://smarty.php.net/manual/en/plugins.writing.php So this function is not as internal as others are. For consistency I suggest we should rename the function to get_plugin_filepath() and make it a public api-function. For migration of third-party-plugins that use _get_plugin_filepath() we could leave a wrapper with a warning for a few releases. function _get_plugin_filepath($type, $name) { $this->trigger_error('the use of _get_plugin_filepath() is deprecated use get_plugin_filepath()', E_USER_WARNING); return $this->get_plugin_filepath($type, $name); } I know having this alias is a little bloat, but it would be temporary and be bloat at the right place, IMHO. thoughts? greetings messju