Re: [MediaWiki-l] composer installers: Behavior of type "mediawiki-*"

Hi Robert. That's because skins used to be stored in folders with lower-case names. E.g. see https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki/tree/1.23.17/skins Cheers Stephan > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: [MediaWiki-l] composer installers: Behavior of type "mediawiki-*" > Local Time: September 14, 2017 3:23 PM > UTC Time: September 14, 2017 1:23 PM > From: vogel(a)hallowelt.com > To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list &lt;mediawiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org&gt; > > Hi! > > I"ve stumbled over a strange implementation in the composer installer for MediaWiki related projects: > > A package with the name "some-cool-extension" and type "mediawiki-extension" will be installed as "<mediawiki>/extensions/SomeCoolExtension". --> The name gets translated from "dashed-lowecase" into "UpperCamelCase" [1]. > > A package with the name "some-cool-skin" and type "mediawiki-skin" will be installed as "<mediawiki>/skins/some-cool". --> The "-skin" suffix is being removed, but no further transformation is being applied [2]. (Not even some uppercaseing. E.g. Vector skin circumvents this by the declaration of an "installer-name" [3]). > > Does anybody know _why_ this difference is being made? > > [1] https://github.com/composer/installers/blob/master/src/Composer/Installers/… > > [2] https://github.com/composer/installers/blob/master/src/Composer/Installers/… > > [3] https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki-skins-Vector/blob/master/composer.js… > > -- > > Robert Vogel > _______________________________________________ > MediaWiki-l mailing list > To unsubscribe, go to: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l