Just to be clear, this would not affect installation procedure for tarball users. We would
pre-load all necessary dependencies and ship them in one package.
The only end users this would affect are people using Git. (Then there’s also the question
of whether we want to use third-party libraries in MediaWiki, but that’s another issue
entirely.)
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Tyler Romeo
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From: Derric Atzrott datzrott(a)alizeepathology.com
Reply: MediaWiki for enterprises mediawiki-enterprise(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Date: June 12, 2014 at 8:15:33
To: MediaWiki for enterprises mediawiki-enterprise(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-enterprise] WG: How to make MediaWiki easier to install: use
cases
this is a discussion happening on wikitech-l at the
moment. I think this is also of interest to all the mediawiki users out there ;) Please
share your thoughts!
I manage two installations of Mediawiki currently. One of which is on a shared hosting for
which I don't have shell access, and the other is on a physical server that I have
root access to.
I do plan on switching the shared hosting to a VPS at some point though. Regardless of the
route taken, I think that support for the tarball should remain. This is the way that a
lot of folks know how to set up web-based software.
And if you guys go the apt-get package route, please make sure that the packages are
actually well put together. I've seen some really awful packages for web-based
software before, stuff where you were better off just getting the tarball and doing it
yourself. I have every bit of faith that the folks in charge of making the packages will
do a good job, I just mention it because it has been a problem in the past for me with
other software.
Thank you,
Derric Atzrott
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