Hi,
The issue of how to use @since annotations recently came up in the
code review. Those are essential for extension developers who want to
target multiple MediaWiki versions with one codebase. I think we
should come up a standard way to use those.
Without further talk, here are some issues we
Hey,
I think methods should have the @since annotation, as they can be added in a
later version then the one the class was added in. This makes them
non-redundant, so in no case should they be removed.
Cheers
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Jeroen De Dauw jeroended...@gmail.com wrote in message
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Hey,
I think methods should have the @since annotation, as they can be added in
a
later version then the one the class was added in. This makes them
non-redundant,
On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 7:27 AM, Niklas Laxström
niklas.laxst...@gmail.com wrote:
The issue of how to use @since annotations recently came up in the
code review. Those are essential for extension developers who want to
target multiple MediaWiki versions with one codebase. I think we
should
I think @since annotations are probably useless.
I disagree, and know that quite some other extension developers do to. Have
you actually been in the situation where you are writing an extension that
needs to be compatible up to a certain previous MediaWiki release, and where
forced to go look
On 15 August 2010 20:36, Aryeh Gregor simetrical+wikil...@gmail.com wrote:
If you do want to find out if a method is in the version you're
targeting, there's a very easy way: check out the branch in SVN and
look in the file. Or use ViewVC. It's not really harder than looking
in the source
