"Aryeh Gregor" Simetrical+wikilist@gmail.com wrote in message news:7c2a12e21003281059i551c4650p8a8e51e100b62479@mail.gmail.com...
On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 10:48 PM, Damon Wang damonwang@uchicago.edu wrote:
(You also as a Mediawiki extension rather than a core feature; I'm going to do that, but I won't say anything more because it seems fairly uncontroversial.)
I actually disagree with this pretty strongly. It would be a regression in functionality for existing users -- if they upgrade, their wiki breaks unless they install a new extension. There's no reason to remove it from core that I see that outweighs this disadvantage.
As opposed to their wiki breaking when they upgrade for all the other reasons that we document in the release notes? I have never built a wiki where texvc has been needed, wanted, or even thought harmless. Currently MW users have to compile and configure a binary from a language 99.99% of them cannot understand, and enable the functionality using config variables. Asking them instead to download and install an extension like every other non-ubiquitous feature in MediaWiki is far from being a regression.
--HM