Extension talk:ExtensionManager

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This sounds interesting to free me from the burden of installing extensions, that won't work or are difficult to get to work etc. But I don't know how to install this http://www.mediawiki.org/skins-1.5/common/images/button_image.png Embedded filecore extensions manager itself. Is it possible to provice a Zip-File for windoows installation? --Ollio 21:00, 2 April 2008 (UTC)
 * I do not know what that is. Jean-Lou Dupont 21:40, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

 The most recent release is always available through the extension's PEAR and SVN repositories. Is it possible to make this more userfriendly? Not every wiki-Administrator is a developer and not everybody has the needed sound experience and a working installation with access to SVC und PEAR. --Ollio 21:04, 2 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Extension:ExtensionManager is specifically designed to be more user friendly: one just has to use PEAR to install/upgrade extensions **without** having to touch LocalSettings.php everytime. Note also that most of my extensions do not require touching LocalSettings.php for customizable as I try to have those in wikitext/special pages instead. So, I respectfully suggest you get to know PEAR. Jean-Lou Dupont 21:40, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

I am sorry but...
Only now did I understand that it's much better to have ExtensionManager take care of all the extensions you have written. DUH! And this after much reading back and forth on both the mediawiki extensions site and your own site. Previously I have installed both PEAR and installed everything via PEAR but then I went and changed LocalSettings.php as well by hand. Then in panic I did the whole shebang again in a different order and I used the forced upgrade versions as well. I now understand this was a mistake and I should not have done all this.

Now I have the extensions (ConditionalContent, ExtensionManager, ParserPhase2 and StubManager - and did not go any further yet until I understand how all this works) installed ok BUT I can't see the Special Pages associated to them so something somewhere is wrong and I cannot for the sake of my mind's soundness find out what it is. There should be some extensions showing up in the special/restricted pages section, right?

Thanks in advance for any help! Peter