On 02/06/2013 01:14 PM, Niklas Laxström wrote:
More refactorings and rewrites are needed (like
ContentHandler) to get
MediaWiki back to enabling the development of new ideas rather that
limiting that. At the same time constantly changing interfaces and
breaking existing extensions will annoy people depending how much we
will put effort into keeping backwards compatibility. Can't please
everyone.
You're right, you can't please everyone, but we should at least have
some sort of support for legacy interfaces.
That, and coordinating with the authors of the impacted extensions would
also help.
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