--- On Wed, 8/12/09, Brion Vibber <brion(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
Your setup is incorrect: the extensions folder
*always*
goes inside the
MediaWiki root dir. Always.
Sorry, my inexperience with Subversion led me in the wrong direction. I didn't realize
I could check out phase3 then point Subversion to the extensions directory in phase3 to
check out extensions. I thought Subversion would get confused, but I just tried it and it
worked :-). At least Subversion performed the checkout. I haven't tried doing an
update.
I just (case sensitively) searched the extensions directory for the string "$IP
=" and found 32 files that compute $IP on their own. How about creating a standard
bit of code that extensions and other modules can copy and use to figure out MW root. For
example, it is very unlikely that the name of the first level directory (i.e., phase3)
will change. The code can call dirname( __FILE__ ) and then search from the end of the
pathname until it finds phase3. It then knows that the prefix is MW root.
Dan