On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 9:49 AM, Max Semenik <[email protected]> wrote: > On 10.05.2013, 5:10 Tim wrote: > >> Several people from the HipHop team at Facebook just met with several >> people from WMF. Also, in the last couple of days, I've been doing >> some research into what it would take to make MediaWiki support HipHop >> VM. The answer is: not very much. > >> There's two features that we use, mostly in extensions, that the >> Facebook people are not keen to implement due to their complexity: >> ArrayObject and filter_var(). It seems that it would be much easier >> for us to stop using them than for those features to be implemented in >> HipHop. > >> So I'd like to suggest that we refuse new code submissions in Gerrit >> that use these features, if they are targeted for WMF production, and >> that we start work on migrating away from the existing uses of those >> features. > >> There's a few other SPL features that we don't use at the moment and >> we should avoid introducing if possible due to lack of support in HipHop: > > What about namespaces? Last time I heard HH didn't support them - is > it safe to assume that support for them is coming? >
Yes. As I understood it yesterday, this is just about to land in master. -Chad _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
