The npm peerDependency option is explicitly for extensions/plugins that depend on other extensions. Ie, a jQuery plugin that requires another jQuery plugin to also be loaded (a peer). This is the inter-extension dependency problem that was being discussed, as I understand it. (I could be wrong of course.) --scott On Jul 22, 2013 2:25 PM, "Jeroen De Dauw" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hey, > > Regardless, the question is: can composer help? It appears that it can: > > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Composer > > > > Yeah, and we've already done most of the steps to make this work for > extensions in core. If you got a MW install, you can already install > Wikibase (together with all its dependencies), though its going to leave > you with a modified composer.json. > > The solution proposed by Hashar in some other thread is to have a > "MediaWiki installation" package, which just contains a composer.json file > with core in it, where people can add dependencies, and then install. > Before that will work, we'll need to get rid of "global scope assumptions" > in all core files. For instance, WebStart.php has globals in it, accessed > without specifying they are globals. This will break when included via > Composer, as it will not do so in global scope. > > This global scope problem is also present in pretty much all MediaWiki > extensions, except for Wikibase and its libraries, where it was fixed in > part to not break when used via Composer. This means we will not be able to > do things in core and have extensions automatically work. (Unless you do > some kind of hack where you promote all variables in the current scope to > global scope, though I suspect we do not want to do this :D). > > --scott (who will attempt to ignore future non-technical posts on this > > thread) > > > > That is a good explicit rule. Thanks, I'll follow it as well. > > Cheers > > -- > Jeroen De Dauw > http://www.bn2vs.com > Don't panic. Don't be evil. ~=[,,_,,]:3 > -- > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
