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