On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 9:35 AM, Markus Krötzsch mak@aifb.uni-karlsruhe.dewrote:
MediaWiki could do with more installation helpers for its extension in general, so this could be an interesting experiment ...
Definitely - MediaWiki could use a package manager similar to apt or yum. So many extensions rely on specific versions of MediaWiki, and more and more extensions are starting to depend on specific versions of other extensions. A package manager for extensions would solve the entire problem.