On Sun, Dec 8, 2013 at 10:43 PM, Nik Everett <neverett(a)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.
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*Tyler Romeo*
Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2016
Major in Computer Science