On Sun, Dec 8, 2013 at 10:43 PM, Nik Everett neverett@wikimedia.org wrote:
Not to be a downer but isn't this one of the things x windows did that upset people? I'm not arguing that this approach is doomed, just that care must be taken. Honestly I don't know the situation well enough to have a super strong opinion.
Agreed on being very hesitant with this. Not *all* of MediaWiki needs to be a library. A library implies re-use. For example, nobody is going to reuse the SpecialPage class and its children outside of MediaWiki, so it does not make sense to turn it into a library.
The only things that could really be separated into libraries are the DatabaseType hierarchy, the HTMLForm section, maybe the FileRepo / File / FileBackend product, and maybe the JobQueue product.
*-- * *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2016 Major in Computer Science