This has been soft-deprecated since MW 1.26; this hard-deprecation
sets the stage for future removal of this old cruft.
Bug: T198214
Depends-On: Idf246d05d116f63a73105b50a1929a7721fbe7b9
Change-Id: I2e7d990da1da378eb6e828d4b3c0f5a41791dd92
PlatformSettings.php is a standardized and recommended way for
re-distributors and packagers of MediaWiki to be able to tune
DefaultSettings.php as appropriate.
If includes/PlatformSettings.php exists, the installer will
automatically include it as part of the generated LocalSettings.php.
The main advantage of this system is that if the distributor wants to
change the default settings, all users will benefit immediately. And if
people want a vanilla MediaWiki experience, they can just remove the
inclusion from their LocalSettings.php.
This RfC
(<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/PlatformSettings.php>)
was approved by TechCom.
Bug: T182020
Change-Id: I34f9a4acbe86b9c5c80ac16451b317ce5f6640f9
It was never super popular anyway, APC was always the best option.
The project has no plans to move to PHP7, so it's quickly reaching
its end of life. Oh, and Fedora dropped it from their repos 2 years
ago.
Change-Id: Ia3257e86a6323d8943f04a5c05c72c0bd4c4b0a9
...after a discussion with Debian packagers. They can now override installer
classes and change LocalSettings.php the installer generates. The file
intended for such overrides, mw-config/overrides.php, has intentionally been
placed outside of includes to underline the "don't change includes" paradigm.
Change-Id: Id82b90f6740307609bc6c6f4fb8765bc3484dbe7
Added load.php to the entry point list.
Mention maintenance/install.php existence.
Added section explaining that they shall run maintenance/update.php on update.
None of the 3 globals based on it changed if you set it in LocalSettings.
Note that all those !isset( $wgServerName ) in ApiTests were useless, since if not in LocalSettings it would be 'localhost', not null (as still are those !isset( $wgServer )).
After some discussion with Fedora's mediawiki maintainer, I thought this
would be helpful. Probably it could use improvement in a variety of
ways, but it's a start.
