Perhaps the new installer could contain that as an option during the
inital setup.
Like a two or three-column thing with a bunch of checkboxes.
Language: English [\/]
Default theme (X) Vector (_) Monobook (_) Foobar
Common Extension: [X] ParserFunctions [X] SpecialInterwiki
[X] Cite.php [X] CharInsert
[X] CategoryTree
etc. you get the idea
Op 29 sep 2010, om 01:15 heeft Platonides het volgende geschreven:
> Chad wrote:
>> On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 11:34 PM, Trevor Parscal wrote:
>>> when to move features out of core and into an extension or
>>> out of an extension and into core.
>>>
>>
>> I don't think anyone's commented on the former (everyone's been
>> talking about pushing in, not pulling out). IMO, the conditions for
>> splitting something into an extension
>>
>> A) Not a lot of people use it anyway (hard to gauge)
>> B) It probably shouldn't have been in core in the first place (eg:
>> AskSQL)
>>
>> So far, the only successful case I can think of offhand for splitting
>> an extension out was AskSQL, but it's a perfect example of what
>> should happen.
>
> DumpHTML was also split from core. texvc should have been moved out of
> core, but since that would change things set there from the
> mwbeginning,
> nobody did it yet.
>
>
>
>>> 1. This is a very valid and important goal, but am unconvinced and
>>> merging extensions into core is the only way to achieve it. We
>>> can, for instance, take advantage the new installer that demon
>>> is
>>> working on which has the ability to automate the installation of
>>> extensions at setup-time.
>>>
>>
>> Quick note on the installer. It only enables extensions that already
>> reside in your extensions folder. Since we don't distribute any with
>> the default package, this might not be terribly useful. More awesome
>> is Jeroen's GSoC work on extension management. Something to look
>> at post-1.17 branch though.
>
> I think the point is to start shipping mediawiki with common
> extensions
> there.
>
>
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