On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 11:52 PM, Platonides <[email protected]> wrote: > Maybe we should provide a way to generate namespaces for extensions. > The simplest way, using a global which is updated by each extension > reserving a namespace is too fragile, but maybe we could produce > something similar to ftok(3) to derive a free namespace number. > TimedMediaHandler tried to do this (it picked the lowest free namespace number above 100 or something), and I made Michael take it out. The reason was that variable namespace numbers are very, very, bad:
* It will usually result in the same namespace having different numbers on different wikis * If you add site-specific namespaces or install another extension using the same technique, the namespace number may change and all your pages will be messed up Roan _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
