2014-05-29 20:27 GMT+03:00 Bryan Davis bd808@wikimedia.org:
What use cases did I miss? What other concerns do we have for this process?
The email subject does not cover third party users, so apologies if this is not the correct place for this.
Currently updating translatewiki.net codebase is annoying, as git does not handle files replaced with symlinks well.
I am not happy since I had to spent unplanned effort to be able install extensions via composer just a short while ago. We replace composer.json with symlink to our configuration repo, where it includes the extension we install via composer.
Ori has come up with a good solution for this issue, but that solution requires changes to Composer. To me it looks like nobody is currently working on that.
Is there a way I can expedite this fix?
Thank you for your efforts to bring composer support to MediaWiki. I wish the process was less rough for me.
-Niklas