On 4/24/09 10:34 AM, Aryeh Gregor wrote: > On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 12:59 PM, Thomas Dalton<[email protected]> > wrote: >> 2009/4/24 Chad<[email protected]>: >>> And the vast vast majority don't use preferences. I don't think it'll >>> be a huge issue. The extensions that are broken and people use >>> will quickly be found and fixed. >> How gracefully will old extensions fail? > > I'd assume fatally, but extensions sometimes break when core code > updates. That's a fact of life. One way to avoid this is to ask to > get it checked into Wikimedia SVN, so a grep can show that there are > users and they can be fixed by whoever makes the breaking change.
I believe they'll just not have their extended preferences displayed until they've updated to work with the non-crappy, actually sanely extensible, preferences interface. Nothing else would be affected. -- brion _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
