I plan to merge the file backend branch next Monday (PST).
Overview:
FileRepo was refactored to use storage paths instead of file system paths. A
storage path looks like mwstore://backend/container/rel_path_to_file. This
is somewhat similar to FileRepo virtual URLs (though they are URL-encoded of
Very exciting. I can hardly wait until Monday to get my hands on this
to try it out on Azure. That's been the missing piece for me.
Everything else in MW 18.5 works for me on Azure, except paging beyond
the first page for some of the special pages (e.g. Most Wanted) due to
a SQL Server PDO bug
I forgot to mention a useful link, http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/FileBackend.
Currently, just Tim and I have been using that page to record thoughts and
design decisions.
Aaron Schulz wrote:
I'm starting to finish the initial coding for the FileBackend branch (see
I didn't copy them over so that I could avoid having them fall out of sync. I
don't have a super IDE, I just had the base class open in the editor to use
as a reference for the function documentation. I'd prefer not to copy them
anywhere, those I suppose when things settle down there is less risk
As you wish.
On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 1:04 PM, Aaron Schulz aschulz4...@gmail.com wrote:
I didn't copy them over so that I could avoid having them fall out of
sync. I
don't have a super IDE, I just had the base class open in the editor to use
as a reference for the function documentation. I'd
I'm starting to finish the initial coding for the FileBackend branch (see
https://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki/branches/FileBackend). I still
have to get to thumb.php and img_auth.php though. Simple testing of uploads,
re-uploads, moves, deletes, restores, and such are working on my local
On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 5:51 PM, Aaron Schulz aschulz4...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm starting to finish the initial coding for the FileBackend branch (see
https://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki/branches/FileBackend). I still
have to get to thumb.php and img_auth.php though. Simple testing of
On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 10:20 PM, Rob Lanphier ro...@wikimedia.org wrote:
On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 5:51 PM, Aaron Schulz aschulz4...@gmail.com
wrote:
I'm starting to finish the initial coding for the FileBackend branch (see
https://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki/branches/FileBackend). I
