[Mediawiki-api] ATTENTION: query.php will be removed soon

[Yuri Astrakhan]

Agree, backwards compatibility is important, but it has to be balanced
with efforts required to maintain query.php.. Every db schema change
must be looked at to see if query.php must be updated. Internal api
changes may also impact its functions and performance. IIRC, there are
already some queries not working as intended.

At the very least, we can analyze web logs to see which query.php
functions are being used, and disable the rest. There was logging
functionality built into query.php, and the server should have an
alternative log that could be grep-ed. Can a server admin look at
that?

Thx!


On 2/2/08, Tim Starling <tstarling at wikimedia.org> wrote:
> Yuri Astrakhan wrote:
> > For those who use old query.php API interface:
> >
> > Per http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12881 , query.php has
> > been fully ported to the api.php, and thus no longer needed. Unless
> > there are significant reasons to keep it around, it will be removed both
> > from the extensions and from the mediawiki sites fairly soon.
> >
>
> Isn't backwards compatibility enough of a reason? Surely it's a lot easier
> to keep it around than to rewrite everything that uses it.
>
> -- Tim Starling
>
>
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