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> On Dec 8, 2013, at 10:22 PM, Rob Lanphier <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Sun, Dec 8, 2013 at 3:06 PM, Jeroen De Dauw <[email protected]>wrote: > >> On Sun, Dec 8, 2013 at 2:42 PM, Bryan Davis <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Finding a way to separate MW the library from MW the application may be a >>> solution to this conflict. I don't think this would be a trivial >>> project, but it doesn't seem impossible either. >> >> That'd be fanatic if it happened for many other reasons as well. For all >> intents and purposes it is a big caste in the sky though. I expect this to >> not happen in the coming years, unless there is a big shift in opinion on >> what constitutes good software design and architecture in the community. > > > It sounds like you're retreating from an argument you haven't even started > yet. A successful proposal will likely be one that can be executed > incrementally without huge workflow shifts, so there may have been > resistance in the past to a particular "blow it all up and start over" > strategy. However, I haven't yet heard anyone put forward the argument > that MediaWiki's monolithic architecture is the correct long-term > architecture. > > I largely agree with Bryan that separating MediaWiki the library from > MediaWiki the application is something we should consider tackling. I have > a quibble with the wording: it should be "MediaWiki the set of libraries", > not a single library, and it seems like we could start teasing them out one > at a time if we can agree on a general framework under which this would be > done. > > Rob > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l Not to be a downer but isn't this one of the things x windows did that upset people? I'm not arguing that this approach is doomed, just that care must be taken. Honestly I don't know the situation well enough to have a super strong opinion. Nik _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
