On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 10:34 AM, Mark A. Hershberger <m...@nichework.com> wrote: > > I've opened a task on Phabricator[1] to attempt to merge the information > in extension.json with Composer's > already-used-by-several-extensions-and-skins composer.json. > > Kunal has rightly pointed out that composer doesn't fit some use-cases > for MediaWiki. I see that as an opportunity to be good citizens in the > larger developer community by working to integrate MediaWiki into the > growing ecosystem available on packagist.org. > > For example, if composer had been available, we might not have had to > develop our own HTTP client. > > If composer had been available, Brion could have released the work under > includes/normal as its own package. As he says in the README there: > > This directory contains some Unicode normalization routines. These > routines are meant to be reusable in other projects, so I'm not > tying them to the MediaWiki utility functions. > > (Of course, there was PEAR, but that is ugly and centralized in a way > that composer is not.) > > Using Composer for extensions also reduces the learning curve for > developers who want to adapt their work (which may already be available > via Composer) to be used in MediaWiki. It helps us increase the size of > the available developer community without too much effort. > > Footnotes: > [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T89456
For those new to this discussion, review of the talk page for the Improving extension management RFC [0] and the Extension management with Composer RFC [1] and it's talk page [2] would be advised. I'd love to see this discussion become more unified rather than more fragmented as I believe that an improved versioning, compatibility and loading system for extensions is an important topic for the future of MediaWiki. [0]: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Requests_for_comment/Improving_extension_management#-1_Creates_technical_debt [1]: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Extension_management_with_Composer [2]: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Requests_for_comment/Extension_management_with_Composer Bryan -- Bryan Davis Wikimedia Foundation <bd...@wikimedia.org> [[m:User:BDavis_(WMF)]] Sr Software Engineer Boise, ID USA irc: bd808 v:415.839.6885 x6855 _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
