On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 11:20 AM, C. Scott Ananian <[email protected]>wrote:
> It might also be worth going a "wikibase" release (on its own schedule or > else scheduled shortly after each MW release), that contains a particular > MW version along with version of the extensions that have been tested to > work with it. This is the usual way in which these sorts of dependency > chains are dealt with outside of WMF. (Ie, when RedHat Fedora is released, > it contains the latest GNOME at that time, which in turn contains a version > of GTK+ and various utilities all tested to work well together). > For the admin, it should just be a matter of using "wikibase 1.23" or > whatever; they shouldn't have to hunt down individual extensions and figure > out compatible versions for themselves. > What if you want to use wikibase 1.23 and MyAbominationExtension 1.5 that requires an incompatible version of DataValues and MyAwesomeExtension 1.0 that requires an incompatible version of ValueView? - Ryan _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
