Hoi,
Some extensions are backwards compatible however and some are not. Given
that there are plenty of people and orangisations using stable versions of
MediaWiki, how do they know and how are they to know ?
Thanks,
GerardM
2009/2/21 Daniel Kinzler <[email protected]>
> Aran schrieb:
> > Hi I'm just wondering what the policy is with regards to changes to
> > extension code in the svn in the case where the modification is
> > compatible only with recent versions. Shouldn't extensions be designed
> > to be as backward compatible as is practical rather than focussing
> > exclusively on supporting the current release?
>
> Extensions are not required to be backwards compatible. It's nice if they
> are,
> but they don't have to. Extensions are branched off along with the major
> releases of MediaWiki, and versions on the branches should be compatible
> with
> the respective version of mediawiki.
>
> -- daniel
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