I tend to agree that skins should be installed in exactly the same way as other extensions. This will also help make installation more automateable.
-- brion On May 20, 2014 11:39 PM, "Tim Starling" tstarling@wikimedia.org wrote:
On 21/05/14 07:25, Bartosz Dziewoński wrote:
- $IP/extensions/SkinName/ for everything, the rest as above. This
makes the skin work exactly like an extension. The only example I could find on mediawiki.org is the Nostalgia skin [5].
I introduced this facility to core many years ago, and I still generally think it is a good idea. There are in fact at least another 6 skins that use this system: they are in mediawiki/extensions/skins in Gerrit -- a directory layout carried over from Subversion. Nostalgia should have been put there too.
The main reason I think it is a good idea is code sharing. Treating skins as extensions means you can share automated distribution and installation systems.
-- Tim Starling
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