Thread:Extension talk:VisualEditor/VisualEditor does not load (REL 1.23)/reply (4)

Ok, VisualEditor is now running on my system!

And I found the problem:

If you download the VisualEditor via the web-interface at http://git.wikimedia.org/branches/mediawiki%2Fextensions%2FVisualEditor.git then you will *NOT* get any submodules, like e.g. lib/ve/.

The problem is, that the web-interface for git at git.wikimedia.org can not handle git submodules. If you download an archive of VisualEditor (e.g. REL1_23) then lib/ve will be missing. If you try to access a submodule like lib/ve, then the web-interface will give you an error message.

If you download VisualEditor via https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:ExtensionDistributor/VisualEditor then everything is fine.

If you manually download VisualEditor via git commandline, and do a "git submodule update --init" afterwards, then everything is fine.

What is really annoying was the lack or error-messages.