https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26650

--- Comment #3 from Reedy <s...@reedyboy.net> 2011-01-10 17:44:37 UTC ---
(In reply to comment #2)
> (In reply to comment #1)
> > Or just don't rename the global, just change its purpose? We can detect 
> > whether
> > it's set to a boolean or a number and act accordingly.
> Or wait, I'm sorry, I misunderstood. I missed the fact that
> $wgApiCacheHelpTimeout was already there.
> 
> Due to register_globals considerations we have to either keep the old var
> around in DefaultSettings or stop listening for it. Neither sounds 
> particularly
> nice, so I think the best solution is to phase it out gradually (mark as
> deprecated now, but still define it in DS and listen to it for a while longer,
> then kill it in a later release).


Yeah, exactly. I'll put a rough patch together for a proposal for this, and see
what you think...

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