On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 12:53 PM, C. Scott Ananian cananian@wikimedia.orgwrote:
Arguably the problem which needs to be solved here is dependency management.
Regardless, the question is: can composer help? It appears that it can: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Composer
I'm interested in having a technical discussion of next steps. What can we do to make this work even better? --scott (who will attempt to ignore future non-technical posts on this thread)
Partially. The issue is that extensions are both packages and dependencies. Scribunto is itself an independent package that a wiki can install, but at the same time it can be a dependency for other extensions. That's where it gets tricky...
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