I see a lot of support requests from people who have evidently just installed an old version of MediaWiki. Why not make the installer check what the latest stable version is (by looking at http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Template:MW_stable_release_number, maybe?) and complain if the user is installing something out-of-date?
This check should probably fail silently if it can't connect to mediawiki.org.
Version: 1.15.x
Severity: enhancement
| Status | Subtype | Assigned | Task | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Resolved | None | T19394 Make the installer check whether it's installing an old version | |||
| Resolved | None | T22628 New-installer branch (tracking) |
[02:10] <TimStarling> if someone is installing 1.9.3 from their distro, you can't have a warning telling them to install it from source
[02:10] <TimStarling> the distro will just patch the warning out
Re-opening this.
The idea seems like a sound one. While it may be a bitch to implement properly, and it could even take months or years to do so, there's no reason to mark this as WONTFIX (as in, we're never, ever gonna fix this so stop asking).