On Sun, 27 Nov 2011 07:15:42 -0800, John W. Foster jfoster81747@gmail.com wrote:
I have Mediawiki 1.17 installed. I have been using the Special Extension distributor to download the extensions I want to use. Now it only offers to download a 1.18 version ("snapshot" I think). Is this likely to cause functional issues with the extension I need. Seems to me the drop down should offer both the current or other versions if it truly is making the extension for the version listed available. I do not want to update my current server to the newest version as I figure it still has a few kinks to work out. I will do that when it is actually released. Any ideas? frosty
What extension?
Extension distributor doesn't really know anything about what versions of extensions are compatible with what versions of MediaWiki. All ED does is when you ask for a 1.18, 1.17, etc... version of an extension is give you the version inside the REL1_## branch that was branched along with that MediaWiki release.
It's a poor hack. Often the trunk version of an extension will actually work with stable versions of MediaWiki, so you don't need to use an old version. And if an extension was written after we branched a REL1_## branch then that extension probably won't be listed for that version even if it's compatible.
It's possible that the extension you're talking about was written after 1.17 was branched and we only have a REL branch in 1.18 and the trunk code. Try just installing the trunk version and see if it works.