Exactly what I warned about. Yet another example of poor thinking/execution
and exactly what I predicted.


On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 12:02 PM, James HK <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I just went on to `git pull --rebase origin master` on  getting MW
> 1.24 master and suddenly I see a "Whoops! The default skin for your
> wiki ($wgDefaultSkin), vector, is not available."
>
> I have to say that I'm not really interested in modifying the
> LocalSettings.php just to get a MW working as it used to be.
>
> I do expect when downloading MW it is at least functional and not
> comes with a message of "Whoops!" your missing something.
>
> The other funny thing, is the message which says: "You can paste the
> following lines into LocalSettings.php to enable all currently
> installed skins:" ( empty )
>
> So I should paste an empty message to `LocalSettings.php`, what the hell!!
>
> If you at least provide a composer download for the standard skins, I
> could  go on and do `composer mediawiki/vector-skin` without having
> the remember the location of some gerrit repo, doing some cryptic git
> submodule stuff or care about "mediawiki/skins/*" at all.
>
> Cheers
>
> On 8/7/14, Bartosz Dziewoński <[email protected]> wrote:
> > This has just happened.
> >
> > The instructions MediaWiki will display should guide you through. Poke me
> > on IRC if the email I send earlier and the instructions don't help :)
> >
> > --
> > Matma Rex
> >
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