If this is merged after the 1.16 branching, and support for old skins would be dropped
from 1.17 on, you'll be able to use the old skinning system up to EOL of 1.16 as a
supported version, expected somewhere around March 2011 or a few months later. Should give
you ample time to prepare for MediaWiki 1.18 or whatever is the current version then...
Siebrand
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[mailto:wikitech-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Conrad Irwin
Sent: Thursday, February 11, 2010 3:52 PM
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Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] Skin system rewrite
This is great, just one question though - will "old-style" skins still
be supported (for a few versions at least)? I have a dozen or so skins
that currently work, it would be an absolute nightmare if I have to
upgrade them all when MediaWiki swaps over to this. Perhaps a
compatibility layer could be put over the top of the new system to
resemble the old.