On 11/12/11 2:22 PM, Erik Moeller wrote:
On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 11:07 AM, William Allen Simpson william.allen.simpson@gmail.com wrote:
Why not use technical means instead?
Why don't you propose a more detailed spec on MediaWiki.org, or better yet, write some code :-)
I'm sure you're trying to be helpful, but last time I wrote some code here, it wasn't well received. I'd defined it to be language independent, so that future C parser replacements would be easier. But it was re-written to depend on PHP date string formats.
Ugh. (Yes, I was thinking ahead back in 2006. Still waiting for those promised fast C parsers.)
And, I found a bug that was clearly having problems during parsing time functions in large pages with many templates, demonstrated it at en.wiki CFD (where I also designed the templates), wrote simple code -- yet it was closed "works for me".
<sarcasm>Yeah, I reported the bug and wrote the code for my health. </sarcasm>
So, I prefer to get consensus on strategy *before* writing code. And probably prefer letting the semi-pro PHP code writers do it, so they don't feel passed over by mere amateurs.
Also, wiki discussions are a waste of time. They are hard to read, and aren't threaded by MUAs that folks have spent a decade polishing.