On 25 November 2014 at 04:13, Mark A. Hershberger <m...@nichework.com> wrote: > I am happy to announce the final release candidate for MediaWiki 1.24.0. > Download links are given at the end of this email. There won't be any > more RC candidates before a final release on Wednesday unless someone > finds a really critical error. > > == Changes since 1.24.0-rc.2 == > * The composer.json file has been renamed to composer.json.sample after > Jamie Thingelstad reported that his composer.json was overwritten by > the tarball.
I have to agree with Legoktm. Quote from https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Upgrading#Using_a_tarball_package: "You should put the decompressed tarball in a new and empty folder on your server. If you instead extract the new version directly on top of your old version, rather than in a new directory, you should follow #Back up existing files and the database: otherwise, if you've made any customizations you may erase them in a way that leaves you with no reference to re-apply them from." Also, this will complicate installation instructions for every extension and skin that uses composer. They will now have to distinguish between two possible baselines which is a hassle for developers but more importantly a source of confusion for users. Stephan _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
