I'm wrapping up my next version of Open Web Analytics for MediaWiki (http://www.openwebanalytics.com) and wanted to inquire about plans for creating an extension management special page where admins could activate and deactivate extensions without modifying localSettings.php.
Something like this would greatly reduce the technical skill required to add extensions into the mix but more importantly would provide extension developers with a very handy "install" action hook that could be used to do things like create dependent database tables, etc. Right now one needs to run an extension install script to create the necessary db tables and then link into localsettings.php.
Anyone thinking about this or working on something? I saw a thread a while back but nothing since.
-P-
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