Hoi,
I understand how revisions work. How do you use version numbers with SVN,
how are extensions to be supported in combination with SVN ?
Thanks,
GerardM
2009/3/26 Chad <[email protected]>
> On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 12:57 PM, Brion Vibber <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > On 3/25/09 5:16 PM, Roan Kattouw wrote:
> >> I'm guessing this may be because the new file was added after r37404,
> >> but the file registering the extension (and providing the revision
> >> number) wasn't changed at that time, which means the most recent
> >> revision of *that file* is still r37404. Special:Version doesn't really
> >> report the most recent revision of the extension as a whole, but that of
> >> the setup file (IIRC).
> >
> > Right, these version numbers are useless and in fact counterproductive
> > because they're completely inaccurate. I strongly recommend they be
> > removed if they can't be made relevant.
> >
> > -- brion
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> I've gone ahead and removed them from extensions in r48889 and removed
> support from them in r48890. Developers should instead use version numbers
> that make sense. We've had the 'version' parameter in $wgExtensionCredits
> since pretty much forever, use that instead.
>
> -Chad
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