-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Brion Vibber wrote: > During development of the new API, the old query.php was left in place > on Wikimedia's sites to provide backwards-compatibility for tools and > user scripts using it. > > However it's a bit of a burden to keep it around -- being nearly > unmaintained it suffers from "bitrot": [snip] > I'm currently scheduling the Death of query.php for Monday, August 25 -- > a little less than 4 weeks from today.
...now done. query.php is dead! Long live api.php! > This gives interested parties a chance to either migrate their scripts > to the current API ahead of time, or to start work on an adaptor to > replace query.php -- transforming queries to send them to the new API > and transforming the results back to a format compatible with the old one. Guess nobody wanted an adaptor that badly. :) - -- brion -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkizNNEACgkQwRnhpk1wk45eXgCfSutan8ovlmLwMLBYFGixo1EW IzsAnR6k3JIX48HkfzhgWqJnFGuoyMmI =cx4Q -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Mediawiki-api mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-api
