On 3/26/09 10:40 AM, Chad wrote:
I've gone ahead and removed them from extensions in r48889 and removed support from them in r48890. Developers should instead use version numbers that make sense. We've had the 'version' parameter in $wgExtensionCredits since pretty much forever, use that instead.
Thanks!
SVN revision numbers *can* be useful, but they need to say something useful. :) The per-file version usually isn't helpful, since the meat of the extension is usually in other files which change more frequently.
For MediaWiki itself we pull the SVN revision info for the whole directory, but you can only do that when you're actually looking at a checked-out working directory. If we want to do similar for releases or downloaded extensions, we need to find another way to store it...
(Extension versions are also complicated by having the branches for MediaWiki versions. This makes it harder to remember what you're looking at, but reduces the backwards-compatibility problems we had trying to keep trunk extensions working with multiple MW versions over long periods of time. Ahh, compromise!)
-- brion