On 27.09.2012, 3:26 Krinkle wrote:
On Sep 26, 2012, at 8:01 PM, Niklas Laxström
<niklas.laxstrom(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> On 26 September 2012 10:08, Krinkle
<krinklemail(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>> Another problem I found in the current setup is that its a bit counter-intuitive
how to manage the directory structure for developers. I mean, most of us probably have
this:
>>
>> - mediawiki
>> - /core (clone mediawiki/core.git)
>> - /extensions (directory with clones of individual extensions or clone of
mediawiki/extensions.git tracking repo)
>
> In SVN time extensions were a subdir of mediawiki core and I doubt
> that everyone has suddenly decided to change it. At least I haven't.
> -Niklas
No, not at all. They never were and never will.
In svn we have:
[mediawiki]
- trunk/
- - phase3/
- - extensions/
Extensions has always been besides never inside core.
Of course in unversioned installations (e.g. tarballs)
we put extensions in
the extensions subdirectory. And even in versioned installations, one can
* git clone individual extensions in the extensions
directory
* git clone extensions next to core and place symlinks for invidual
extensions in the extensions directory
But if someone simply clones the
mediawiki/extensions.git tracking
repository, then it is kind of annoying to have to put symlinks in
place. I have my local dev environment set up like this:
$wgScriptPath = '/mediawiki/core';
$wgExtensionAssetsPath = '/mediawiki/extensions';
$extDir = dirname( $IP ) . '/extensions';
require_once( "$extDir/Vector/Vector.php" );
This approach has a problem:
Let's take a look at random extension's (AbuseFilter was in the
beginning of directory listing) maintenance script:
require_once ( getenv( 'MW_INSTALL_PATH' ) !== false
? getenv( 'MW_INSTALL_PATH' ) . "/maintenance/commandLine.inc"
: dirname( __FILE__ ) . '/../../maintenance/commandLine.inc' );
If MW_INSTALL_PATH is not set (and nobody sets it), this layout will
break all the maintenance scripts. And there are more way extensions
rely on themselves being present in $IP/extensions
--
Best regards,
Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem]])