Re: [PATCH/RFC] git-remote-mediawiki: new tool to preview local changes without pushing

From: Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
Date: Jun 12, 2013, 06:55 UTC
Message-ID: <vpqli6f24z3.fsf@anie.imag.fr>
In-Reply-To: <20130611213722.GA21203@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

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> I was thinking that you would be self-contained inside the
> contrib/mw-to-git directory, and therefore you would have to teach your
> code how to install the Git module, and you could not longer just "cp
> git-remote-mediawiki" into the right place to install it.
>
> But I think we have already crossed that bridge somewhat with Git.pm.
> And if you add your module as perl/Git/MediaWiki.pm and use the existing
> perl build system, then it is not any extra effort from the build
> system.

I'm not sure having perl/Git/MediaWiki.pm would be a good idea: this MediaWiki.pm would be really a mediawiki thing more than a Git thing, so the Git main tree probably want to stay away from it and keep it in contrib.

But you should be able to use contrib/mw-to-git/perl/GitMediawiki.pm or something like that and chain to ../../perl/Makefile in contrib/mw-to-git/Makefile.

Also, for now, git-remote-mediawiki works only after you run "make install" in Git's toplevel. I think that's ok, but it would be weird to be able to use/test git-remote-mediawiki only after doing a "make install" to deploy the new mediawiki Perl module.

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Matthieu Moy
http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/