https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=66519
--- Comment #11 from James Forrester <[email protected]> --- (In reply to Tony Mach from comment #10) > Ok, VisualEditor is now running on my system! > > And I found the problem: > > If you download the VisualEditor via the web-interface at > http://git.wikimedia.org/branches/mediawiki%2Fextensions%2FVisualEditor.git > then you will *NOT* get any submodules, like e.g. lib/ve/. > > The problem is, that web-interface for git at git.wikimedia.org can not > handle git submodules. If you download an archive of VisualEditor (e.g. > REL1_23) then lib/ve will be missing. If you try to access a submodule like > lib/ve, then the web-interface will give you an error message. > > If you download VisualEditor via > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:ExtensionDistributor/VisualEditor > then everything is fine. > > If you manually download VisualEditor via git commandline, and do a "git > submodule update --init" afterwards, then everything is fine. Yeah, the instructions say this pretty clearly, though I see you've now gone rather over-board in saying this several times in big boxes. :-) > What is really annoying was the lack or error-messages. Yeah; we should raise an issue with MediaWiki core about the lack of user-visible errors, though gerrit 155177 will at least make it more obvious for VisualEditor users in future. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
