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Von: Bináris <wikiposta(a)gmail.com>
An: Pywikibot discussion list <pywikibot(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Datum: 03.08.2015 22:59
Betreff: Re: [pywikibot] Help me get back to business
Thank you for the answer!
2015-08-03 16:41 GMT+02:00 Amir Ladsgroup <ladsgroup(a)gmail.com>om>:
Dear Bináris:
1- "compat" is deprecated and official deprecation started about two
months ago, so we don't even check compat bugs and it won't be updated
(and
API of Wiki changes). so I highly suggest you to
start with core.
Really? I read back the list archives and somebody wrote it was *de facto*
deprecated and a formal deprecation should be done, but I didn't meet any
finalized statement. So I thought it was still alive. However, as I wrote,
it is enough for me to revive the compat first which I am familiar with,
and do the next step later.
compat is de facto deprecated because the most developers are working on core since two
years and patches for compat are highly decreasing, see [1]. Merging to core is in most
cases very simply; you may use the compat2core script for which helps a lot. I personally
use 3 remaining schripts in compat and fix known bugs for it as long as I am unable to
merge to core due to known problems. On the other hand I do not actively support any
further feature request and enhancements to compat because I've not time for two
branches including reviewing large changes on compat when you tend to revive it. But maybe
I would do it for trivial ones. I discarded all my uncommitted changes on my work copy and
forced core and I recommend to merge to core too as much as possible; your participation
as developer is welcomed and needed there. Please ask us when you need help. I know there
was a huge change in the last two years.
Best
xqt
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