* Common use case is Conf::get( 'myVar' );
* Support for default install (new `config` table) added, should be trivial to add backends for CDB, Memcache, etc...
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to stop mostly irrelevent classes from getting it.
Also remove a method that is an exact duplicate of a base class (not sure whats with that).
This also coincidently fixes the issue with when a foreign file repo uses PagedTiffHandler
and the local one does not, and the builtin Tiff handler tries to treat the metadata as if
it was its own form.
* Refactor with all the latest bells and whistles
* Allow wikis to enable resettting by entering an email address (bug 13015). This is currently an unindexed query, but it is disabled by default so no immediate problem.
* Allow resetting to be disabled entirely (bug 20473).
* Don't send registered users' IP addresses in the emails (bug 18347)
* Check that a user is not globally blocked before letting them send messages (bug 23669)
* Display a more useful error message when an account exists globally but not locally (bug 18996).
Also make a few changes to the functions available. SpecialPageFactory::resolveAlias() now takes an optional subpage and returns array(<name>,<subpage>). Similarly merge getPage() and getPageByAlias(). There were many examples of (extensions particularly) making dubious assumptions about the presence or absence of subpages or canonical-ness.
I didn't deprecate SpecialPage::getTitleFor() as it's got over six hundred calls. I'm rather undecided on the best position of getPage()/executePath(). Although the latter needs cleanup anyway.
* Move them all to includes/profiling/* - If you're using StartProfiler, you'll need to update that
* Make ProfileStub subclass the Profiler rather than duplicating function definitions conditionally
* Removed unused params to wfGetProfilingOutput(), only used in the stub, and they didn't do anything with them
* TODO: Kill $wgProfiling, make $wgProfiler a config array and move the various options to that. Also make into a singleton, rather than global (not much calls it outside of core)
Hope I did this in an ok fashion. svn merge --re-integrate was giving me issues
so I just essentially over-wrote my working copy with the version at img_metadata.
Per CR at the time: this creates a nearly irreversable action that is not nearly well documented enough (even if disabled by default).
We already have the $wgBlockDisablesLogin kludge in place for this. If we're going to do more work on this idea, it should be well thought out, not another hack.
* Actions come in two flavours: the show-a-form-then-do-something-with-the-result (delete, protect, edit, etc) and the just-do-something (watch, rollback, patrol, etc). Create abstract base classes Action and FormlessAction to support these two cases. HTMLForm is an integral part of the form-based structure.
* Look mum, no globals! :D Fully context-based.
* Implement watch/unwatch, credits and delete actions in the new system as proof-of-concept. This also gives the delete frontend a much-needed overhaul.
* Stub out the newly-deprecated functions from Article.php. This already reduces its linecount by about 15%, and there are plenty more actions still to do.
* Centralising actions like this is going to render a lot of hooks type-incompatible. There's simply nowhere you can put the ArticleConfirmDelete hook, for instance, where it can be passed an OutputPage as the second parameter. On the other hand, we can implement new hooks like ActionModifyFormFields and ActionBeforeFormDisplay, which can do much prettier stuff to the forms, like adding extra fields the 'right' way. Update LiquidThreads to use these new hooks where appropriate.
* (bug 14202) $wgUseTeX has been superseded by the Math extension. To re-enable
math conversion after upgrading, obtain the Math extension from SVN or from
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Math and add to LocalSettings.php:
require_once "$IP/extensions/Math/Math.php";
This is an initial stab, and a few things remain to be cleaned up:
* messages need to be moved from core to extension
* MW_MATH_* constants should be moved to the extension from core
* old back-compat math names interfaces using those constants should be removed from message files
* classic edit toolbar's math button should be added from the extension (or else dropped) -- currently there's not a clean hook, but could do it by JS
* couple of things like the 'armourMath' function on Language & LanguageConverter may want to be redone just as an unconditional, if that's simpler.
Setting $wgUseTeX alone will no longer have any affect. The var's still there for the moment as a few bits still need to be fully moved out from core.
* Work around HipHop issue 314 (volatile broken) and issue 308 (no compilation detection) by adding some large and ugly compilation detection code to WebStart.php and doMaintenance.php.
* Provide an MW_COMPILED constant which can be used to detect compiled mode throughout the codebase.
* Introduced wfIsHipHop(), which detects either compiled or interpreted mode. Used this to work around unusual eval() return value in eval.php.
* Work around lack of ini_get() in Maintenance.php, by duplicating wfIsHipHop().
* In Maintenance::shouldExecute(), accept "include" as an inclusion function name, since all kinds of inclusion give this string in HipHop.
* Introduced new class MWInit, which provides some static functions in the pre-autoloader environment.
* Introduced MWInit::compiledPath(), which provides a relative path for invoking a compiled file, and MWInit::interpretedPath(), which provides an absolute path for interpreting a PHP file. Used these new functions in the appropriate places.
* When we are running compiled code, don't include files which would generate duplicate class, function or constant definitions. Documented the new requirements on the contents of Defines.php and UtfNormalDefines.php.
* In HipHop compiled mode, it's not possible to have executable code in the same file as a class definition.
** Moved MimeMagic initialisation to the constructor.
** Moved Namespace.php global variable initialisation to Setup.php.
** Moved MemcachedSessions.php initialisation to the caller in GlobalFunctions.php.
** Moved Sanitizer.php constants and global variables to static class members. Introduced an accessor function for the attribs regex, as a new place to put code formerly at file level.
** Moved Language.php initialisation of $wgLanguageNames to Language::getLanguageNames(). Removed the global variable, marked "private" since forever.
* In two places: don't use error_log() with type=3 to append to a file, HipHop doesn't support it. Use file_put_contents() with FILE_APPEND instead.
* Work around the terrible breakage of class_exists() by using MWInit::classExists() instead in various places. In WebInstaller::getPageByName(), the class_exists() was marked with a fixme comment already, so I replaced it with an autoloader solution.
* Don't stub RequestContext. The chances of us getting away without needing to access *any* of the six major globals is nil, and in the meantime it's screwing up strong function typing and throwing catchable fatals everywhere.
* Stop stubbing $wgOut. The only path where we can avoid unstubbing it is if we immediately die due to maxlag overflow, and that's a) a pretty uncommon code path, and b) a DB issue which won't be affected by a tiny bit of extra apache load. That allows us to do strong typing on function parameters with it, which is a Good Thing (TM).
Also make OutputPage::getContext() private; I'm not convinced that a context belongs here (it's *part of* the context, not a consumer of it), let's work through it a it more before we advertise its existence.
