Thread:Extension talk:MobileFrontend/Requires Mantle extension?/reply (7)

Thanks for the information. I run a small wiki and try to stay current with MediaWiki software releases. When we update our version of MediaWiki, our policy has been to update Extensions to the matching version. Not wanting to live too much on the bleeding edge, our policy on Extensions recommends that we stick to Stable versions that are widely used. As far back as I remember, this is the first time we've run into this type of dependency issue. I would hope that MediaWiki developers would understand the rationale behind these policy decisions and attempt to keep core and extension development in sync so that other sites don't have to follow Wikipedia's software deployment strategy geared towards testing and running software that is under development. In this particular case, the dependence on an Extension with status = experimental is challenging.