Topic on Extension talk:Semantic Title

MW distributor contents vs contents of the git repo

4 comments • 19:13, 10 July 2017 6 years ago

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JosefAssad (talkcontribs)

I am running a 1.27 MW and was installing this extension. As I understand it, the extension distributor packs up and sends out a specific commit from the extension's git repo, in this case it looks to me like commit with id ca0248090a5cc557d27516415dc3324635b0dd99 . When I git clone the extension from github, I can see that this commit is indeed the tip of the REL1_27 branch, which is as expected.

But, the contents of the code delivered via the extension distributor does not appear to be equivalent to the contents of the code you see when checking out REL1_27 from the git repo. The extension distributor for example has the newer extension.json scheme.

Am I misunderstanding something here? I'd prefer (for the time being) to git clone my extensions, but I'm not entirely sure now which commit is the one which is expected to work with MW 1.27.3.

Thanks!

Reply 18:26, 10 July 2017 6 years ago

Cindy.cicalese (talkcontribs)

For extensions that are marked with the new "Compatibility Policy" set to "master", you should use the master branch. ExtensionDistributor should generally not be used for this type of extension. The head of the master branch should still work with MediaWiki 1.27.

However, almost all of the functionality of SemanticTitle has been replaced by the newer DisplayTitle extension used in conjunction with the DISPLAYTITLE magic word built into MediaWiki core as well as the "Display title of" property provided by Semantic MediaWiki. SemanticTitle is provided for backward compatibility only.