Re: [Wikitech-l] Backward compatibility in svn extensions

2009-02-21 Thread Daniel Kinzler
Aran schrieb: Hi I'm just wondering what the policy is with regards to changes to extension code in the svn in the case where the modification is compatible only with recent versions. Shouldn't extensions be designed to be as backward compatible as is practical rather than focussing

Re: [Wikitech-l] Backward compatibility in svn extensions

2009-02-21 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, Some extensions are backwards compatible however and some are not. Given that there are plenty of people and orangisations using stable versions of MediaWiki, how do they know and how are they to know ? Thanks, GerardM 2009/2/21 Daniel Kinzler dan...@brightbyte.de Aran schrieb: Hi

Re: [Wikitech-l] Backward compatibility in svn extensions

2009-02-21 Thread Robert Rohde
On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 12:12 AM, Daniel Kinzler dan...@brightbyte.de wrote: Aran schrieb: Hi I'm just wondering what the policy is with regards to changes to extension code in the svn in the case where the modification is compatible only with recent versions. Shouldn't extensions be designed

Re: [Wikitech-l] Backward compatibility in svn extensions

2009-02-21 Thread Daniel Kinzler
Gerard Meijssen schrieb: Hoi, Some extensions are backwards compatible however and some are not. Given that there are plenty of people and orangisations using stable versions of MediaWiki, how do they know and how are they to know ? Thanks, GerardM Never rely on it. Assume extensions

[Wikitech-l] Backward compatibility in svn extensions

2009-02-20 Thread Aran
Hi I'm just wondering what the policy is with regards to changes to extension code in the svn in the case where the modification is compatible only with recent versions. Shouldn't extensions be designed to be as backward compatible as is practical rather than focussing exclusively on