"Aryeh Gregor" <Simetrical+wikilist(a)gmail.com> wrote in message
news:7c2a12e21003281059i551c4650p8a8e51e100b62479@mail.gmail.com...
On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 10:48 PM, Damon Wang
<damonwang(a)uchicago.edu>
wrote:
(You also as a Mediawiki extension rather than a
core feature; I'm going
to do that, but I won't say anything more because it seems fairly
uncontroversial.)
I actually disagree with this pretty strongly. It would be a
regression in functionality for existing users -- if they upgrade,
their wiki breaks unless they install a new extension. There's no
reason to remove it from core that I see that outweighs this
disadvantage.
As opposed to their wiki breaking when they upgrade for all the other
reasons that we document in the release notes? I have never built a wiki
where texvc has been needed, wanted, or even thought harmless. Currently MW
users have to compile and configure a binary from a language 99.99% of them
cannot understand, and enable the functionality using config variables.
Asking them instead to download and install an extension like every other
non-ubiquitous feature in MediaWiki is far from being a regression.
--HM