Hoi,
How much work do you think it will be to repair an extension that needs
repair ? For someone who knows the code and for someone who just has to
repair his one extension ??
Thanks,
GerardM
2009/4/24 Brian <[email protected]>
> How many non-WMF extensions will this break?
>
> On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 9:59 PM, Andrew Garrett <[email protected]
> >wrote:
>
> > I've branch-merged the new preferences system that I've spent the last
> > few weeks developing.
> >
> > On the outside, you probably won't notice any difference except a few
> > bugfixes, but the internals have undergone a complete rewrite.
> >
> > All of the actual preference definitions and utility functions have
> > been separated out into Preferences.php, which holds all business
> > logic for the new system. The UI and submission logic for the system
> > is done in SpecialPreferences.php, which, now only a hundred lines
> > long, wraps a generic class I've written to encourage separation of
> > business and UI logic called 'HTMLForm'.
> >
> > The advantage of this clear separation is that writing an API module
> > is very simple, and it can be called internally, too!
> >
> > Extensions must now hook GetPreferences instead of the existing hooks
> > (which were too low-level to maintain compatibility with), I've
> > updated all extensions used on Wikimedia. This new hook allows you to
> > put preferences wherever you want, and a new preference can be added
> > in less than ten lines of code, rather than the hundred-line nightmare
> > that was required in the previous iteration.
> >
> > I'd like to look towards trimming some of the existing preferences
> > that are no longer relevant, and adding new preferences as common
> > sense dictates.
> >
> > Feedback, praise and criticism regarding the changes is certainly
> welcome!
> >
> > --
> > Andrew Garrett
> > Sent from Sydney, Nsw, Australia
> >
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