At previous job, I've installed and maintained a wiki farm with multiple sites, interwiki setup and caching while another emploee installed MediaWiki from repository via single command and told to former boss that my work is very simple. I hate anything web-related in packages because of that.
On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 6:55 PM, Delirium <delir...@hackish.org> wrote: > On 7/22/14, 3:09 PM, Mark A. Hershberger wrote: > > Max Semenik <maxsem.w...@gmail.com> writes: >> >> However all packages I know of (Debian flavors and not) split MW >>> directory and put its parts into different places, trying to follow >>> the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard. The result is [...] outright >>> breakages because our code base generally assumes that everything lies >>> in one place. >>> >> These are bugs that should be fixed. Release management has worked >> closely with Debian and Fedora packagers to improve their packaging >> because, despite any on-wiki disclaimers, people will continue to use >> "apt-get" and "yum" to install MediaWiki. >> > > Having seen many "institutional" installations of MediaWiki (mostly in > universities), imo the distro version is actually the better option to > recommend by default for non-sophisticated users. Manually installed > MediaWiki, unpacked from tarballs, has a bad habit of being installed once > and *never, ever* upgraded. I just found one here running v1.14! If it had > been the Ubuntu-package version, it's much more likely someone would have > upgraded it in the years since then (e.g. the Apache on this box has been > upgraded, but not the MediaWiki). The distro packaging does sometimes > introduce some weirdness compared to the official structure, but imo it's > the less-bad choice. > > -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
