On 8/12/2012 12:09 AM, Yaron Koren wrote:
As for distributing templates, it depends on what you
mean by "something
like this".
It doesn't seem like you would need SMW, though I'm sure that using SMW
would make using your work on distribution easier.
I'm thinking of creating a distribution system based ideas like PHP's
PEAR, Perl's CPAN, Ruby's Gems, or Python's PyPI. These tools are
ecosystems that encourage sharing reusable work.
I haven't looked at the new Gadgets work yet (though I did know about
it), but maybe we could build upon it to include more than just Javascript.
There is a huge MediaWiki userbase out there (as I've seen from looking
at wikistats with Daniel Zahn). We need to start find better ways to
work together. We all use MediaWiki, but MW enables building new tools
through Javascript, Templates, and (soon?) Lua. There isn't a really
good way to share and re-use that work yet.
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