On 11 March 2014 13:17, Isarra Yos <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 11/03/14 19:21, Jon Robson wrote:
>
>> It might be easier to revamp the skin system if there were fewer skins to
>>> port.
>>>
>> Touché.
>>
>> So.. so 2 questions
>> 1) would anyone have any objections to moving it out of core and into
>> its own extension?
>> 2) would anyone have any objections for turning it off on Wikimedia wikis
>>
>> FWIW, having a single skin in core would actually be a good thing for
>> skin development. Currently writing a skin outside core is difficult -
>> I found this in the development of the mobile skin. Having a leaner
>> codebase in core would actually encourage better organisation to make
>> things. skinStyles is a great example - if your skin is not in core,
>> you can't use it.
>>
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> Aye, it should be an extension. All the skins should probably be
> extensions - I'd argue that even the default one should be implemented as
> an extension. Ship it with the main tarball, have it included by default,
> but keep it as an extension so it's all still modular. It would make
> working with them so much easier.
>

​+1​

​J.
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James D. Forrester
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Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.

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