Re: [SMW-devel] Allowing for disabling SMW and other Composer-installed extensions

2014-01-28 Thread Ryan Lane
On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 6:45 AM, Yaron Koren wrote: > Hi, > > There was a thread about a week ago on the semediawiki-user mailing list, > called "Howto install SMW using git?", that became a discussion about a > number of things, including why there should be a way to disable extensions > install

Re: [SMW-devel] Allowing for disabling SMW and other Composer-installed extensions

2014-01-27 Thread Yaron Koren
Hi John, You're (mostly) right about the problem, but not about the solution: Composer doesn't need to be disabled to get things working - rather, there just needs to be some way to tell extensions to exit out immediately when they're included, which I'm guessing is the much easier approach. I sa

Re: [SMW-devel] Allowing for disabling SMW and other Composer-installed extensions

2014-01-27 Thread John McClure
Right I got the impression from the discussion that it's not possible to run a wikifarm that includes SMW for some sites, but not for others. Is this right? If so, it does sound as if a switch is needed to turn off composer so that wikifarm code can load extensions in the conventional way. If I

[SMW-devel] Allowing for disabling SMW and other Composer-installed extensions

2014-01-27 Thread Yaron Koren
Hi, There was a thread about a week ago on the semediawiki-user mailing list, called "Howto install SMW using git?", that became a discussion about a number of things, including why there should be a way to disable extensions installed via Composer. I suggested using one or more global variables f