Hey all,
Following a brief chat in IRC, I've proposed[0] adding curl to the list of
PHP extensions required by MediaWiki, and Chad thought it'd be a good idea
to get wider thoughts before merging.
Right now we have some features that require curl (it's probably the #2
issue third parties have with installing VisualEditor, for instance, after
mis-matched versions).
We already require mbstring (as discussed in March) alongside xml, ctype,
json, and iconv. If you have an opinion, please weigh in on the task.[1]
[0] -
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/294259/
[1] -
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T137926
J.
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James D. Forrester
Lead Product Manager, Editing
Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
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