there is currently a patch in gerrit which would do exactly that if merged.
On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 11:22 PM, Isarra Yos <[email protected]> wrote: > On 11/06/14 02:30, Tim Starling wrote: > >> In CR comments on https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/135290/ >> it has been proposed that we make a git clone of the MW core not be >> installable until $IP/vendor is populated somehow -- either by >> separately cloning the mediawiki/core/vendor project, or preferably by >> running composer to obtain dependencies. >> >> I have suggested, as a compromise, to make the vendor directory be a >> submodule pointing to mediawiki/core/vendor. Then users can either run >> "git submodule update --init" to obtain dependencies, or they can omit >> submodule initialisation and instead run composer. >> >> I would like to hear more comments on this. >> >> -- Tim Starling >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikitech-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l >> > > That's a lot of discussion, and I'm not sure which bits are actually > relevant here, so to clarify - are you saying that it's been proposed that > MediaWiki not be installable from git without extra steps? If so, what > would be the purpose of that? > > -I > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
