On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 5:25 PM, Bartosz Dziewoński matma.rex@gmail.comwrote:
tl;dr Let's start putting all skins files in a single directory, and let's use a grown-up structure with one class per file + separate init code for them. Okay?
I wouldn't consider this change to be truly revolutionary. Would would really be a great restructuring of the skinning system is if I could make a skin by just writing a couple of HTML templates (probably using Gabriel's DOM-based templating language), throw them in a directory and then tell MediaWiki where the directory is.
However, staying on the topic that you brought up, I do agree with keeping skins in a separate directory than extensions. It implies a bit of control on our part concerning how skins need to be structured, whereas if they were extensions, we cannot place any requirements on the structure.
*-- * *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2016 Major in Computer Science