Extension talk:ExtensionDistributor/Archive

Brilliant
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!

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

How do I get my extension on here?
So how can I get my extensions on here? --Jeffw &bull; (talk) 01:52, 17 February 2012 (UTC)
 * All extensions that are in Gerrit are shown here. ^demon (talk) 18:11, 10 January 2013 (UTC)

Request for comment &mdash; Extension Manager
I'd love to get some feedback on a pie-in-the-sky idea that's come up a number of times before: an extension manager. I love this extension, and think the code could be integrated into a more robust (GUI) extension manager.

--Daniel Renfro talk/ [mailto:bluecurio@gmail.com email] 15:13, 29 October 2012 (UTC)

"Permission denied"
Total failure on both the 1.20 and master versions. The web browser download simply fails without notification. Copying the link into a shell and trying to wget it succeeds at making a connection but then the file apparently is irretrievable. Here is the exact command line session. This would appear to be the root cause of the fails from the web browser too.

wget -c https://codeload.github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki-extensions-Scribunto/legacy.tar.gz/REL1_20 --2013-04-25 14:29:20-- https://codeload.github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki-extensions-Scribunto/legacy.tar.gz/REL1_20

Resolving codeload.github.com... 204.232.175.86

Connecting to codeload.github.com|204.232.175.86|:443... connected.

HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK

Length: 740115 (723K) [application/x-gzip]

REL1_20: Permission denied

Cannot write to `REL1_20' (Success).

Update: Opening the archive directly instead of saving it seems to work. Which suggests renaming the file using the wget option for that would also work.

include installation and download instruction
hi could someone write a instruction on how to install and down load extension distributor please 90.211.52.178 13:52, 28 April 2013 (UTC)

Doesn't do submodules
This system doesn't initialise and checkout submodules, so the VisualEditor extension (and probably others) are broken.

Until this is fixed (how?), is it possible to stop VisualEditor showing up in ExtensionDistributor's list?

Jdforrester (WMF) (talk) 21:28, 18 June 2014 (UTC)
 * right now it just redirects users to github's tarball service, which doesn't include submodules. I found this online which explains why. I'd rather not disable the downloads, I'm wondering if we could setup a post-merge jenkins-job to create a complete tarball whenever a new change is merged, and host it somewhere on labs? Legoktm (talk) 09:16, 15 July 2014 (UTC)
 * Meh, I just wrote a simple shell script to do it. Should be reasonably simple, just requires a few changes to the extension. Legoktm (talk) 11:26, 15 July 2014 (UTC)


 * Hmm. Do we alert users that they're subject to different terms of use from GitHub? Jdforrester (WMF) (talk) 17:45, 15 July 2014 (UTC)

Using ExtensionDistributor for github repos
Hi, I'm trying to setup this extension for a public github repository, so people can download a tarball of a certain numerical model they would like to have. One thing is not clear to me, do you need a setup an "extension list" for a github repository as well; like for the mediawiki extension repository on Gerrit? Or are github repositories able to generate an 'extension list' on the fly?

I'm getting the following warning when trying to implement the ExtensionDistributor extension in my wiki: "Unable to fetch extension list!"

This is the URL to it: http://csdms.colorado.edu/wiki/Special:ExtensionDistributor

Thank you! Albert. --Kettner2 (talk) 00:21, 19 February 2015 (UTC)

Help! This is broken -- can't download
I'm trying to download Extension:UserMerge, for version 1.25 of MediaWiki. I get to a "splash" page that says that it's preparing my download, then, after about five seconds, get redirected to the download file. But that gives a 404. This is very frustrating, because I had to keep hitting the back button to read the splash page, and finally found the link here -- isn't this a bit of a poor design, when things go wrong?

Is there some alternative way to download the UserMerge extension? If so, I don't know it, and the splash page is no help.

Thanks! Klortho (talk) 16:04, 11 June 2015 (UTC)