On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 6:04 PM, dan nessett<dness...@yahoo.com> wrote: > --- On Wed, 8/12/09, Brion Vibber <br...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > >> Your setup is incorrect: the extensions folder *always* >> goes inside the >> MediaWiki root dir. Always. >> > > Sorry, my inexperience with Subversion led me in the wrong direction. I > didn't realize I could check out phase3 then point Subversion to the > extensions directory in phase3 to check out extensions. I thought Subversion > would get confused, but I just tried it and it worked :-). At least > Subversion performed the checkout. I haven't tried doing an update. > > I just (case sensitively) searched the extensions directory for the string > "$IP =" and found 32 files that compute $IP on their own. How about creating > a standard bit of code that extensions and other modules can copy and use to > figure out MW root. For example, it is very unlikely that the name of the > first level directory (i.e., phase3) will change. The code can call dirname( > __FILE__ ) and then search from the end of the pathname until it finds > phase3. It then knows that the prefix is MW root. > > Dan > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l >
Not true. People can name phase3 whatever they want. I have phase3, wmf-deployment, new-install, maintenance-work and w as wiki roots. You can name it anything you want, so don't rely on the 'phase3' name at all. -Chad _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
