2011/4/3 Amir E. Aharoni <[email protected]>:
> I'm not a real MediaWiki developer, so it may be a silly question: How
> hard it is to convert a gadget into an extension? If it's not too
> hard, wouldn't it be better to redo useful gadgets as extensions?
> Unless i miss something very basic, this will make them easier to
> maintain, install, update and localize.
>
It's fairly easy. I guess a howto could be written for this.

Basically, you need to
* put the CSS and JS in one or more files (split where it makes sense)
* write an extension setup file that registers them
* hook into some hook that makes sense for your use case, and call addModule()

Roan Kattouw (Catrope)

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