On Sun, Mar 2, 2008 at 9:00 AM, Bryan Tong Minh bryan.tongminh@gmail.com wrote:
See http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:%24wgAPIModules: "Extension modules cannot override the core modules." Why is that? As far as I understand extension modules can override special pages, so why not api modules? It would be particularly useful for extension LuceneSearch. This extension overrides Special:Search and its (not yet committed) api module should also override list=search.
At least in the case of search, wouldn't it be better to modify the core module to be able to query different backends?