Trevor Parscal <tparscal(a)wikimedia.org> writes:
My understanding is that PEAR has a specific coding
style and set of
standards, which is different than that of MediaWiki.
Coding style is flexible, especially if we're the ones doing the
distribution.
By this, I mean that “putting it in PEAR” could just mean setting up a
MediaWiki PEAR channel. PHPUnit, for example, moved
http://pear.php.net/package/PHPUnit to its own PEAR channel
http://pear.php.net/package/PHPUnit. Other packages related to PHPUnit
are also maintained there.
And as Rob pointed out, putting these “sharable artifacts” in a PEAR
channel doesn't mean that we can't continue to maintain them in SVN.
Setting up
pear.mediawiki.org seems like a good solution to me.
Mark.
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