The old VersionConstraint class is deprecated in modern versions
of composer which use the version from the composer/semver library.
Bug: T119590
Change-Id: I52ad75e7e25f6583bb4b13489a09d2f2d934e67d
These files have all had treatment before, and these occurrences have either
been missed or have been introduced after.
Change-Id: I06cdab4616b5bff47c85152df28f18c861730a23
they support via Composer.
This change allows extensions to specify they depend on a specific
version or version range of MediaWiki. This is done by adding the
package mediawiki/mediawiki in their composer.json require section.
As MediaWiki itself is not a Composer package and is quite far away
from becoming one, a workaround was needed, which is provided by
this commit.
It works as follows. When "composer install" or "composer update"
is run, a Composer hook is invoked. This hook programmatically
indicates the root package provides MediaWiki, as it indeed does
when extensions are installed into MediaWiki. The package link
of type "provides" includes the MediaWiki version, which is read
from DefaultSettings.php.
This functionality has been tested and confirmed to work. One needs
a recent Composer version for it to have an effect. The upcoming
Composer alpha8 release will suffice. See
https://github.com/composer/composer/issues/2520
Tests are included. Composer independent tests will run always,
while the Composer specific ones are skipped when Composer is
not installed.
People that already have a composer.json file in their MediaWiki
root directory will need to make the same additions there as this
commit makes to composer-json.example. If this is not done, the
new behaviour will not work for them (though no existing behaviour
will break). The change to the json file has been made in such a
way to minimize the likelihood that any future modifications there
will be needed.
Thanks go to @beausimensen (Sculpin) and @seldaek (Composer) for
their support.
Change-Id: I8df66a92971146ab79cd4fcbd181e559115ca240
