* Convert "$dbw =& wfGetDB( DB_MASTER );" --> "$dbw = wfGetDB( DB_MASTER );"
* convert "$skin =& $wgUser->getSkin();" --> "$skin = $wgUser->getSkin();"
For the time being have not changed the function definitions of wfGetDB() or User::getSkin() [i.e. they are still both return-by-ref], so as to ensure the interface does not change for extensions [some of which may still be trying to run on PHP4 environments]. However presumably at some point this can be changed too.
Also includes tiny tweak to newlines in parserTests - will show 1 rather than 2 newlines between the "Reading tests from" strings when in quiet mode.
Linux systems with at least some versions of PHP
For some reason posix_isatty(STDIN) prints a warning on Linux about being unable to seek, though it gives the right return value and has no obvious ill effects otherwise.
No such warning appears on Mac OS X.
Using the raw file descriptor number (0 for stdin) seems to work, and is already used in the parser test framework where it checks stdout (1) this way.
new version requirements
* Do a check for the PHP 5.0.x 64-bit bug, since this is much more disruptive
as of MW 1.8 than it used to be. Install or upgrade now aborts with a
warning and a request to upgrade.
* show realpath when asking to chmod g+w ./config
* hide errors returned when trying to dl() mysql.so / pgsql.so
* cleanly outputbuffer when dieing out
Ending the buffering completely will kill all subsequent output when
PHP is globally configured to run through a gzip compression handler.
Also, suppress the warning in LocalSettings.php when PHP tells us we
can't run the gzip filter twice.
* DB_WRITE now called DB_MASTER, DB_READ now called DB_SLAVE
* Converted to use SQL wrapper functions instead of direct SQL in various places
* Experimental method for preserving the chronological order of events when slave servers are used. Untested.
* Fixes to the new post-parse existence test feature
* Some.. other stuff
elimination of the use of import_request_variables (which gives us all
the insecurity of register_globals). Uncomment the define of DEBUG_GLOBALS
in index.php to turn on extra error reporting and trace down use of
uninitialized variables and nassssty globals.
Also rearranged the magic_quotes fixing, may not yet cover everything...
* Misc. bugs fixed in DatabaseFunctions.php and Skin.php.
* install-utils, install and update utilise Database objects instead of handling their own connections
* schema change for RC improvement -- added rc_type, rc_moved_to_title and rc_moved_to_ns
