Ichiro Watanabe wrote:
> I would like to take one step back and ask a couple of questions
>
> 1. Do all $wgVariable defaults behave this way, or are there two kinds
> of defaults, one that gets set before LocalSettings and one after?
No. Only those (and all of them) that contain another $wgVariable into
its default value.
> 2. In any case, who is actually interested in the latter class (i.e.
> default values that are set *after* LocalSettings)? From my short
> experience, the average installer and admin is not. Maybe we need to
> make it clear that these default values are for use of extension
> developers (just guessing here) as opposed to administrators. In fact,
> if this is the case, then I would probably remove altogether this
> confusing default documentation from what is the *user* (i.e. admin)
> manual of MediaWiki - as opposed to what would be a developer's
> manual.
The same people.
Take for example $wgStylePath. Its default value is "{$wgScriptPath}/skins".
The admin may be interested in changing just $wgStylePath.
Or it may want to change $wgScriptPath, in which case (if he didn't also
set $wgStylePath), $wgStylePath will change to still be the skin
subfolder from $wgScriptPath.
I think it is only confusing if you look at DefaultSettings expecting to
see the default there and can't find it.
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