On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 12:12 PM, Aryeh Gregor <simetrical+wikil...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 11:45 PM, Damon Wang <damonw...@uchicago.edu> wrote: >> Can we make update.php ask the user if he wants to install the new extension? > > That would be hacky and unreliable. We'd have to make sure the > versions match, automatically alter LocalSettings.php (!), hope that > the wiki files are writable to the web server (they probably aren't), > hope that it's not on a firewalled intranet, . . . also, update.php > doesn't require user interaction, and changing that would break > everything. > >> Is there any place we could get usage statistics for the math feature? > > No, we don't have this kind of tracking in place. People would > probably object if we did. > >> I think the advantages for new installations justify inconveniencing >> some existing users, especially if we can automate installation of the >> new extension, but this discussion would be better with some data. > > I'm not so much worried about math specifically as about what would > happen if we started systematically moving relatively-unused things > from core to extensions. Few people use math, but a whole lot of > people probably use at least one little-used feature that could be > moved to an extension. We generally haven't moved things from core to > extensions AFAIK -- if we started doing it, it could cumulatively have > repercussions on ease of upgrade, for no real benefit that I see. > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l >
What if it was written as an extension and moved to /extensions? Then we get the benefit of decoupling Math from the core software, but we don't require users to download a new extension to keep their existing functionality. As long as it's clearly indicated in the RELEASE-NOTES and relevant Manual pages that you might need to update the path to Math, I don't see a huge drawback. -Chad _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
