Actually if you put it in the installer you are making a commitment to handhold them through thick and thin, though better and worse, till the death of their wiki do we part. I do (NOT!).
"C" == Chad innocentkiller@gmail.com writes:
Plus, I might know how to maintain them now, but five years later will I still know? I'm not getting any younger.
C> I can't speak for nginx or IIS or lighttpd, but I know that Apache's C> mod_rewrite has been functioning the same way for a long time, so I can't C> imagine that configuration for that will change. On the MediaWiki side--we C> haven't changed the behavior of $wgArticlePath, $wgScriptPath and the C> rest in a very very long time (and I can't imagine we'd break it either).
I'm talking about me. I can't even understand the comments I myself wrote in code six months ago.
C> The process is different for each webserver, which is why there's C> no "one-size-fits-all" answer to how to do this.
Anyways, I'll stick with my Big Ten Inch, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_VqNuLdrGo&list=PL648DE656FFB7A7A7