Bryan Tong Minh wrote: > On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 2:13 PM, Platonides wrote: >> Changing to python will also break for people that compiled math, update >> without reading the release notes and don't have python. >> > While this is ofcourse possible, how big is the chance that somebody > will have ocaml but not python?
My point is, we shouldn't strive so much for backwards compatibility. It's possible, but extremely unlikely. Dmitry wrote: > Fedora Linux has ocaml for ages. yum install ocaml or something like > that. Compiling texvc is fast and easy - never had any problems. Since > ocaml was developed in France, chances are bigger that it has wider > spread over there. > Dmitriy Note that people installing mediawiki from packages will be using something like mediawiki-math package, and upgrade would be transparent for them. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
