Talk:Requests for comment/Improving extension management

Yet another concept
I find this very confusing. Extensions are essentially libraries (or PHP packages). In the olden days, those were managed by the system administrator in the form of distribution-specific packages. For some time now, composer is needed and needs to be mastered. And on top of that yet another concept? I think the way forward should be to reduce the complexity.

Wiki X requires the libraries mediawiki 1.25, mw-parserfunctions 1.3, mw-math 1.9 and mw-superextension 2.39. mw-superextension 2.39's  would depend on mediawiki >= 1.23 (everything's fine) or mediawiki = 1.23 (installation/update fails). The installer spits out  and an   that after reading   calls the mediawiki library's   function.

Developers who are used to composer know what is happening and where to look if something does not work. --Tim&#160;Landscheidt 04:12, 26 January 2015 (UTC)