Re: [SMW-devel] List composer packages used within MediaWiki

2013-11-25 Thread Jeroen De Dauw
Hey, I had another idea related to the topic of this thread, though technically quite independent from (virtually all) the implementation needed for the other functionality described already. Have an API module that simply serves the composer.lock file. This can be implemented as trivially as rea

Re: [SMW-devel] List composer packages used within MediaWiki

2013-11-25 Thread Jeroen De Dauw
Hey James, Great work! And you beat me to it! I started working on the exact same thing yesterday. You can currently observe the lack of code in my GitHub repo for this [0]. Though what you are currently going is only a subset of what I had in mind. One can retrieve package info from Packagist (

Re: [SMW-devel] List composer packages used within MediaWiki

2013-11-25 Thread Mark A. Hershberger
On 11/25/2013 12:59 PM, James HK wrote: > PS: MW-core doesn't provide a sufficient hook for the Special:Version > page that would allow to list package information therefore > Special:ListComposerPackages is used instead. Since MW 1.22 is going to ship with the barest beginnings of Composer suppor

Re: [SMW-devel] List composer packages used within MediaWiki

2013-11-25 Thread Mark A. Hershberger
On 11/25/2013 01:17 PM, James HK wrote: > I know what I need to make it work but the last time I tried to add > something to MW-core it took 8 month so I'm rather reluctant to waste > my time on MW-core issues. I understand your reluctance. https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/56455 is currently giving

Re: [SMW-devel] List composer packages used within MediaWiki

2013-11-25 Thread James HK
Hi Mark, I know what I need to make it work but the last time I tried to add something to MW-core it took 8 month so I'm rather reluctant to waste my time on MW-core issues. Cheers On 11/26/13, Mark A. Hershberger wrote: > On 11/25/2013 12:59 PM, James HK wrote: >> PS: MW-core doesn't provide a