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MediaWiki 1.32.2 and Composer

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Terrawide (talkcontribs)

First of all, thank you for all the hard work on the extension

Second, without going into any technical detail, I could not get the extension to work and had issues with the instructions for installing the extension, both manually and with Composer. I also don't want to burden you in any fashion by asking for help on solving the issue. I'll get it eventually. Instead I'd like to contribute some updates to the instructions for the manual installation of the extension, not Composer*. But it would be easier if you could help a bit.

Here's the short version of what I did: Semantic Glossary Extension downloaded, loaded in the LocalSettings.php file, permissions, ownership of everything set (no specific instructions given on that).  In the instructions for a manual installation I noticed that Lingo was the only dependency listed, along with the instructions to not load it in the LocalSettings.php file.  Downloaded, installed, not configured in LocalSettings.php, done.  Result: "Fatal exception of type "Error" displayed in the browser afterwards.  I haven't looked into the PHP error log yet, but this error doesn't seem to be at that lower level.  I then tried Composer* per your instructions.  It downloaded and installed 83 dependencys.  That seemed a bit much.  The result was more or less the same as it hosed our entire MediaWiki site.  Thankfully I don't test new extensions or Composer updates on a live site, so no big deal.

Anyway, and again, I don't want to waste your time or have you fix my install, but here are my questions:  Are there issues with MediaWiki 1.32.2?  What are all the dependencies for your Extension?  And do they need to be loaded or not loaded in the LocalSettings.php file?

Thanks...

* I've not had much luck with Composer helping more than it damages.  Maybe someone else can help with expanding the instructions for that for various Composer configurations and other OS installs.

F.trott (talkcontribs)

There seems to be an issue with some versions of MediaWiki 1.31 and 1.32 when using Composer. See https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T226766 .

You could try to use the --no-dev switch with composer or wait for the release of 1.32.3

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