On 22.07.2013, 16:11 Jeroen wrote: > Hey,
>> Just curious, why is "composer require mediawiki/core" needed? > Because Hashar is talking about having a "MediaWiki installation" package, > which effectively turns into "My MediaWiki installation" when you start > using it. This package specifies all the things you want to install (in its > composer.json). This will always include core, and also list the extensions > you want on your particular install. > The reason for having this seperate package is to get around the problem I > described earlier in this thread - if you just have core, and you install > other things into it by modifying the composer.josn of core, you'll end up > with a modified non-optional file in the core repo, which causes hassle > when you want to update. > Of course if we got with such a "MediaWiki installation" package, I'd be > natural to put mediawiki-core already in the composer.json file, so people > would not actually need to run this command. So it's a Composer's limitation. It woud've been awesome if it was possible to do something like if exists "optional.json": install "optional.json" :) -- Best regards, Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem]]) _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
