"Aryeh Gregor" <simetrical+wikil...@gmail.com> wrote in message news:7c2a12e21003281059i551c4650p8a8e51e100b62...@mail.gmail.com... > On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 10:48 PM, Damon Wang <damonw...@uchicago.edu> > wrote: >> (You also as a Mediawiki extension rather than a core feature; I'm going >> to do that, but I won't say anything more because it seems fairly >> uncontroversial.) > > I actually disagree with this pretty strongly. It would be a > regression in functionality for existing users -- if they upgrade, > their wiki breaks unless they install a new extension. There's no > reason to remove it from core that I see that outweighs this > disadvantage.
As opposed to their wiki breaking when they upgrade for all the other reasons that we document in the release notes? I have never built a wiki where texvc has been needed, wanted, or even thought harmless. Currently MW users have to compile and configure a binary from a language 99.99% of them cannot understand, and enable the functionality using config variables. Asking them instead to download and install an extension like every other non-ubiquitous feature in MediaWiki is far from being a regression. --HM _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
