Hi Robert. That's because skins used to be stored in folders with lower-case names. E.g. see https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki/tree/1.23.17/skins
Cheers Stephan > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: [MediaWiki-l] composer installers: Behavior of type "mediawiki-*" > Local Time: September 14, 2017 3:23 PM > UTC Time: September 14, 2017 1:23 PM > From: vo...@hallowelt.com > To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list > <mediawiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org> > > Hi! > > I"ve stumbled over a strange implementation in the composer installer for > MediaWiki related projects: > > A package with the name "some-cool-extension" and type "mediawiki-extension" > will be installed as "<mediawiki>/extensions/SomeCoolExtension". --> The name > gets translated from "dashed-lowecase" into "UpperCamelCase" [1]. > > A package with the name "some-cool-skin" and type "mediawiki-skin" will be > installed as "<mediawiki>/skins/some-cool". --> The "-skin" suffix is being > removed, but no further transformation is being applied [2]. (Not even some > uppercaseing. E.g. Vector skin circumvents this by the declaration of an > "installer-name" [3]). > > Does anybody know _why_ this difference is being made? > > [1] > https://github.com/composer/installers/blob/master/src/Composer/Installers/MediaWikiInstaller.php#L38 > > [2] > https://github.com/composer/installers/blob/master/src/Composer/Installers/MediaWikiInstaller.php#L45 > > [3] > https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki-skins-Vector/blob/master/composer.json#L34 > > -- > > Robert Vogel > _______________________________________________ > MediaWiki-l mailing list > To unsubscribe, go to: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list To unsubscribe, go to: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
