On 7/22/14, 3:09 PM, Mark A. Hershberger wrote:
Max Semenik <maxsem.w...@gmail.com> writes:
However all packages I know of (Debian flavors and not) split MW
directory and put its parts into different places, trying to follow
the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard. The result is [...] outright
breakages because our code base generally assumes that everything lies
in one place.
These are bugs that should be fixed. Release management has worked
closely with Debian and Fedora packagers to improve their packaging
because, despite any on-wiki disclaimers, people will continue to use
"apt-get" and "yum" to install MediaWiki.
Having seen many "institutional" installations of MediaWiki (mostly in
universities), imo the distro version is actually the better option to
recommend by default for non-sophisticated users. Manually installed
MediaWiki, unpacked from tarballs, has a bad habit of being installed
once and *never, ever* upgraded. I just found one here running v1.14! If
it had been the Ubuntu-package version, it's much more likely someone
would have upgraded it in the years since then (e.g. the Apache on this
box has been upgraded, but not the MediaWiki). The distro packaging does
sometimes introduce some weirdness compared to the official structure,
but imo it's the less-bad choice.
-Mark
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