Well I think we agreed before somewhere that we should not use Composer for installation of MW extensions, and that MW is in dire need of its own extension management code. *--* *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2015 Major in Computer Science www.whizkidztech.com | tylerro...@gmail.com
On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 6:23 AM, Mark A. Hershberger <m...@everybody.org>wrote: > I saw (via Siebrand) this tweet Tuesday from Nils Adermann of Composer > fame: > > Fusing #PHP communities: Promising discussions on code reuse in > #MediaWiki through #composerphp this afternoon at @wikimedia, thanks > @robla! https://twitter.com/naderman/status/260918497276731392 > > What is the status on this discussion? Are we planning to use Composer > in the future? This sounds really exciting! > > Mark. > > On 09/27/2012 09:47 PM, Mark A. Hershberger wrote: > > Thankfully, I think there is already a dependency manager that we can > > build on. > > > > I'm talking about Composer (http://getcomposer.org/). > > > > Of course, MediaWiki isn't aware of this dependency manager and so > > MediaWiki's extensions aren't either. I've only looked at it briefly, > > but it appears that adding support wouldn't be difficult at all -- it > > would just mean adding a file to the git repository. > > > > What do you think? > > > > Mark. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
