On Apr 5, 2014 1:09 PM, "Jeroen De Dauw" <jeroendedauw(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hey,
Yes. You're meant to:
- write your extension for $CURRENTVERSION;
So does this mean extension authors are not supposed to write extensions
compatible with multiple MediaWiki versions?
Well lots of people use separate branches for different versions of MW
(including in particular the WMF). However i personally wouldn't want to
try and force a particular development strategy on extension developers
unless we had to, and from what I understand SMW folks have generally liked
the one extension working with multiple mediawiki apptoach (I think, you
would know better than me).
To clarify, in this particular issue, what would you like to be done to
address it? Are you simply looking for a revert, or is there some middle
ground that would make both you and the people behind the patch happy. At
this stage (just imho) I dont think I would support a revert because while
annoying, its not horrendously annoying and the patch has been there for a
while. However if there is something we could do to make this less annoying
to people with your use case, while still accomplishing the point of the
patch, that would be great.
--bawolff