2010/9/6 Bryan Tong Minh <[email protected]>:
> As a general comment, I think that it is not strictly necessary to
> have your global template usage in core. If you follow the example of
> the global image usage, the sharing feature (ForeignFileRepo) is in
> core, while the tracking feature (GlobalUsage) is an extension.
> Similarly, the interwiki transclusion can be in core, but the usage
> tracking can be an extension.
>
> Of course we can also move global (image) usage to core and have
> "global" features there. Another option would be to create a unified
> global usage extension that supports file and template usage.
>
Typically, features are developed in extensions because that's easier,
then considered for moving to core (the latter doesn't happen very
ofiten, granted). GlobalTemplateUsage was written straight into core,
and I see no compelling reason to keep it out of core, especially
since it closely ties into one specific core feature.

Roan Kattouw (Catrope)

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