Re: [Wikitech-l] Changes to the new installer

2010-07-21 Thread Platonides
Tim Starling wrote: > There's still quite a lot of work to do to get the new installer ready > for 1.17. I think we should focus on that, and avoid expanding the > scope of the project until we've reached that milestone. > > There are the issues discussed here: > > http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/N

Re: [Wikitech-l] Changes to the new installer

2010-07-21 Thread Jeroen De Dauw
Hey, Unless the installer needs to be ready within a week for 1.17 I don't see any issues. I want to make structural changes, not add new features. The sooner these are made, the less overall work my GSoC project will be. As I'll be doing all the work on these changes, and am not skipping any ot

Re: [Wikitech-l] Changes to the new installer

2010-07-20 Thread Tim Starling
On 20/07/10 19:28, Jeroen De Dauw wrote: > Hey, > > Basically splitting core-specific stuff from general installer functionality > (so the general stuff can also be used for extensions). Also making initial > steps towards filesystem upgrades possible. > > The point of this mail is not discussing

Re: [Wikitech-l] Changes to the new installer

2010-07-20 Thread Chad
On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 5:28 AM, Jeroen De Dauw wrote: > Hey, > > Basically splitting core-specific stuff from general installer functionality > (so the general stuff can also be used for extensions). Also making initial > steps towards filesystem upgrades possible. > > The point of this mail is n

Re: [Wikitech-l] Changes to the new installer

2010-07-20 Thread Jeroen De Dauw
Hey, Basically splitting core-specific stuff from general installer functionality (so the general stuff can also be used for extensions). Also making initial steps towards filesystem upgrades possible. The point of this mail is not discussing what I want to do though, but rather avoiding commit c

Re: [Wikitech-l] Changes to the new installer

2010-07-20 Thread Max Semenik
On 20.07.2010, 13:08 Jeroen wrote: > Hey, > I want to make several structural changes to the new installer, to make it > fit in a more general deployment model. This will involve moving code and > renaming things. Does anyone have objections to me doing this? (I don't want > to undermine work peo

[Wikitech-l] Changes to the new installer

2010-07-20 Thread Jeroen De Dauw
Hey, I want to make several structural changes to the new installer, to make it fit in a more general deployment model. This will involve moving code and renaming things. Does anyone have objections to me doing this? (I don't want to undermine work people are currently doing.) Cheers -- Jeroen D