It would probably be easier to develop something similar to the
Extension distributor and install it on semantic-mediawiki.org.
Basically you would give it a list of extension folders, and when
someone requests it would build a tarball of all those folders, making
sure to svn up first. You could actually make it use checkboxes then
people could get custom packaged versions with the extensions they selected.
~Daniel Friesen(Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire) of:
-The Nadir-Point Group (http://nadir-point.com)
--It's Wiki-Tools subgroup (http://wiki-tools.com)
--The ElectronicMe project (http://electronic-me.org)
--Games-G.P.S. (http://ggps.org)
-And Wikia ACG on Wikia.com (http://wikia.com/wiki/Wikia_ACG)
--Animepedia (http://anime.wikia.com)
--Narutopedia (http://naruto.wikia.com)
Sergey Chernyshev wrote:
To tell you the truth, I don't see any benefit of having extensions to be
inside SMWExt folder - it's not a huge trouble to increase number of folders
in mediawiki/trunk/extensions/ and considering generic tools for
distribution (and hopefully installation in the future) I'd vote for keeping
them all the same way it's done right now.
Still, as Yaron Mentioned, Semantic Bundle (
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Semantic_Bundle) is a very useful thing
(sorry, couldn't get more time to making something more usable then just a
page for it). I think it's worth the effort to have some sort of easy
installer for them all - I was thinking about combining them all using SVN
externals which can point to corresponding folders in
mediawiki/trunk/extensions/ or just have a make file that creates a combined
tarball.
Sergey
2008/8/18 Yaron Koren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Well, could the Extension Distributor be modified to allow for extensions
located somewhere other than the top-level directory? If not, that's one of
those technical obstacles that has to be considered.
I don't see people getting code they don't want as a big problem - I guess
I take Rolf's position on it, where it's not a big issue for administrators
to ignore the extensions that they don't need. I'd rather make life easier
for people who *do* want to use one or more of the SMW-spinoff extensions,
since I think they're in the majority anyway; though I might be biased.
-Yaron
On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 11:34 AM, Daniel Friesen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
Ugh, you do realize that once you use any of those options other than
the current (which is a mediawiki svn standard) it instantly becomes
impossible to let users use the Extension Distributor to get a copy of
that individual extension?
And if you put it inside of a SemanticMediaWiki/extensions/ folder,
anyone trying to get a copy of SMW will also get a bunch of crap code
they don't want. (Think of asking for a tarball of SMW, and getting a
tarball of SMW + a bloated directory of extensions you don't want).
Additionally do think about the people who are trying to make it EASIER
to install and configure extensions. If you diverge from the standard
structure that extensions are placed in, then it becomes increasingly
hard to create extensions or features which allow for say, a UI for
configuring and enabling extensions.
Using a different tree only works out when you are NOT using MediaWiki's
SVN. But then, you need to start thinking about the different places an
extension could be installed in, and creating a bunch of test cases.
~Daniel Friesen(Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire) of:
-The Nadir-Point Group (http://nadir-point.com)
--It's Wiki-Tools subgroup (http://wiki-tools.com)
--The ElectronicMe project (http://electronic-me.org)
--Games-G.P.S. (http://ggps.org)
-And Wikia ACG on Wikia.com (http://wikia.com/wiki/Wikia_ACG)
--Animepedia (http://anime.wikia.com)
--Narutopedia (http://naruto.wikia.com)
Denny Vrandečić wrote:
Oh, sorry, I was unclear: yes, you are fully right, every extension
should have its own folder. The question is just, should they be
1) Grouped in one SemanticMediaWikiExt directory
2) Be first level on the MediaWiki/extensions directory
3) Be grouped in a SemanticMediaWiki/extensions/ directory
4) somewhere else (explain)
5) whatever
Having all the files fly around in a single directory is definitively a
very bad idea :)
denny
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