Re: [SMW-devel] A place for small extensions

[Denny V. <dv...@ai...>]

I find the arguments given convincing. So, all new extensions will
continue to get their own directory in the normal MediaWiki extensions
directory. The only exceptions are, for now, result printers and
datatypes, based on Markus' arguments -- they are too small really.

Thanks for the comments!

denny

Markus Krötzsch wrote:
> On Montag, 18. August 2008, Denny Vrandečić wrote:
>> Oh, sorry, I was unclear: yes, you are fully right, every extension
>> should have its own folder. The question is just, should they be
>>
>> 1) Grouped in one SemanticMediaWikiExt directory
> 
> I think this is only good if all the extensions are best thought of as *one* 
> extension with a common base directory and a common way for admins to select 
> which of the "features" of the extension should be enabled.
> 
> Hence, I suggest 
> 
> 1') Create two extensions
> 
> SMWExtraDatatypes
> SMWExtraQueryFormats
> 
> that basically are a list of single files (one per datatype, one per query 
> format) shipped with a simple setup file that reads the wikis config settings 
> to figure out which of those are to be enabled. Datatypes are things like 
> Daniel's SMW-YGO type, formats are things like Denny's Google Charts 
> printers. I think these two kinds of mini extensions are most common.
> 
> As a rule, one could require that no Special pages or other complex features 
> are added, and that every datatype/format that wishes more than a single 
> source file puts it into a subdirectory that is named like the 
> datatype/format. One would also establish a common naming scheme for datatype 
> IDs used by extension datatypes (to prevent clashes with SMW types or other 
> extensions). I think this would be much better than having every 
> datatype/format in a single extension and do their own private stuff there, 
> given that those extensions are so closely related.
> 
> Such a common setup would also simplify internationalisation, since you do not 
> have to make a new project at BetaWiki to get your datatype/format names 
> international for single file extensions.
> 
>> 2) Be first level on the MediaWiki/extensions directory
> 
> Would be doable, and is my preferred solution for larger extensions like SF 
> and Halo. But these directories should use a common naming scheme like the 
> current Semantic*
> 
> For datatype and format extensions, I prefer (1').
> 
>> 3) Be grouped in a SemanticMediaWiki/extensions/ directory
> 
> No, I would definitely object to that. SMW core should be as slim as possible 
> (some features might even move to the (1') extensions), and the way you check 
> out stuff from SVN would make people pull ./extensions in any case.
> 
> 
> Markus
> 
>> 4) somewhere else (explain)
>> 5) whatever
>>
>> Having all the files fly around in a single directory is definitively a
>> very bad idea :)
>>
>> denny
>>
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