Extension talk:ExtensionDistributor/Archive

Brilliant application. One suggestion - on the download page can you also provide a link to the appropriate Meta/mediawiki Extension instructions/help page. Ta.

Brilliant indeed. I totally love it. :-) Thanks, Tim. --BigSmoke 21:18, 17 December 2008 (UTC)

Problems installing
I have installed exactly as per instructions 3 times - I cannot even get the tags to work. Am I missing something. Help please. Please contact me at webmaster [AT] cruiserlog.com when you have the time. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 198.54.202.3 (talk • contribs) 22:55, 26 January 2009. Please sign your posts!

interfaces to subversion?
are there any wiki interfaces to subversion? Do you see where I'm going with this? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Sir Censor (talk • contribs). Please sign your posts with ~ !

How to work this extension
How do you configure this extension? I need answers! --202.61.210.15 03:04, 14 October 2009 (UTC)
 * --Liangent 07:23, 25 October 2009 (UTC)

Missing signature
In the Download page I find a GPG security signature assuring about who packaged the tarball.

gpg: Signature made 07/13/09 20:11:00 using DSA key ID E8A3FEC4 gpg: Good signature from "Tim Starling " gpg: Note: This key has expired! Primary key fingerprint: D7D6 767D 135A 514B EB86 E9BA 7568 2B08 E8A3 FEC4

On downloading the Cite extyension I found none. Does that mean the tarball was never signed or the ExtensionDistributor doesn't support signatures?

(fixed) ExtensionDistributor error in Opera browser
The Problem: The auto-start download in the ExtensionDistributor makes the Opera web-browser reload the page after 5 seconds, instead of auto-starting the download.

Version: Opera v10.10 stable-built:1893 Windows7 --FarwayK 14:09, 24 January 2010 (UTC) BTW I've never experienced this problem anywhere before.

This problem still exists and this ExtensionDistributor is still the only place where this happens.

It makes downloading extensions manually almost impossible with Opera. The refresh sends you to http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:ExtensionDistributor thereby losing the chosen extension and version data.

The only way to stop this is hitting the stop button immediately when the page starts refreshing, before the current page turns blank.

Current Version: Opera v11.00 stable-build:1156 --FarwayK 19:05, 30 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Filed in Bugzilla as ticket 26537. Peachey88 00:52, 2 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Thanks, now it works perfectly FarwayK 22:34, 12 October 2011 (UTC)

ExtensionFunctions.php not present
At least the finnish version of Special:ExtensionDistributor is unclear about that ExtensionFunctions thing. It should be more clearly stated, that not all extensions have this in the .tar file, and if it is not there that is not a problem. --Taleman 08:55, 4 June 2010 (UTC)

Stop the Redirect
The automatic redirect is annoying. I'm using Internet Explorer.
 * 1) First we see the "Download Mediawiki extension" page where we press Continue.
 * 2) The second page is where the download link is created. When that page shows up, the 3rd page shows up automatically "Download MediaWiki extension" and we lose the link.

Please stop this redirect. --Choshi 13:54, 23 January 2011 (UTC)