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Von: Bináris <[email protected]>
An: Pywikibot discussion list <[email protected]>
Datum: 03.08.2015 22:59
Betreff: Re: [pywikibot] Help me get back to business
> Thank you for the answer!
>
> 2015-08-03 16:41 GMT+02:00 Amir Ladsgroup <[email protected]>:
>
> > Dear Bináris:
> > 1- "compat" is deprecated and official deprecation started about two
> > months ago, so we don't even check compat bugs and it won't be updated
> (and
> > API of Wiki changes). so I highly suggest you to start with core.
> >
> Really? I read back the list archives and somebody wrote it was *de facto*
> deprecated and a formal deprecation should be done, but I didn't meet any
> finalized statement. So I thought it was still alive. However, as I wrote,
> it is enough for me to revive the compat first which I am familiar with,
> and do the next step later.
compat is de facto deprecated because the most developers are working on core
since two years and patches for compat are highly decreasing, see [1]. Merging
to core is in most cases very simply; you may use the compat2core script for
which helps a lot. I personally use 3 remaining schripts in compat and fix
known bugs for it as long as I am unable to merge to core due to known
problems. On the other hand I do not actively support any further feature
request and enhancements to compat because I've not time for two branches
including reviewing large changes on compat when you tend to revive it. But
maybe I would do it for trivial ones. I discarded all my uncommitted changes on
my work copy and forced core and I recommend to merge to core too as much as
possible; your participation as developer is welcomed and needed there. Please
ask us when you need help. I know there was a huge change in the last two years.
Best
xqt
[1]
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Deprecate_pywikibot-compat#Comments
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