[Wikitech-l] Managing external dependencies for MediaWiki core

2014-07-25 Thread Daniel Kinzler
This is about whether it's OK for MediaWiki core to depend on other PHP libraries, and how to manage such dependencies. Background: A while back, I proposed a simple class for assertions to be added to core[1]. It was then suggested[2] that this could be placed in a separate component, which

Re: [Wikitech-l] Managing external dependencies for MediaWiki core

2014-07-25 Thread Antoine Musso
Le 25/07/2014 11:08, Daniel Kinzler a écrit : This is about whether it's OK for MediaWiki core to depend on other PHP libraries, and how to manage such dependencies. Background: A while back, I proposed a simple class for assertions to be added to core[1]. It was then suggested[2] that this

Re: [Wikitech-l] Managing external dependencies for MediaWiki core

2014-07-25 Thread Bryan Davis
On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 4:45 AM, Antoine Musso hashar+...@free.fr wrote: Le 25/07/2014 11:08, Daniel Kinzler a écrit : This is about whether it's OK for MediaWiki core to depend on other PHP libraries, and how to manage such dependencies. Background: A while back, I proposed a simple class