The point of $IP is that you can use multisite environments by just having index.php and Localsettings.php (and skin crap) in the per-vhost directory, and have extensions and other stuff centralized so you can update the extension once and all the wikis automatically have it. However, the Installer could be patched, to resolve $IP automatically if the user wishes to run a HipHop environment.
Marco On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 2:59 PM, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <ava...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 13:35, Domas Mituzas <midom.li...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Still, the decision to merge certain changes into MediaWiki codebase (e.g. >> relative includes, rather than $IP-based absolute ones) would be quite >> invasive. >> Also, we'd have to enforce stricter policy on how some of the dynamic PHP >> features are used. > > I might be revealing my lack of knowledge about PHP here but why is > that invasive and why do we use $IP in includes in the first place? I > did some tests here: > > http://gist.github.com/310380 > > Which show that as long as you set_include_path() with $IP/includes/ > at the front PHP will make exactly the same stat(), read() etc. calls > with relative paths that it does with absolute paths. > > Maybe that's only on recent versions, I tested on php 5.2. > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > -- VMSoft GbR Nabburger Str. 15 81737 München Geschäftsführer: Marco Schuster, Volker Hemmert http://vmsoft-gbr.de _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
