On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 11:52 PM, Platonides <Platonides(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Maybe we should provide a way to generate namespaces
for extensions.
The simplest way, using a global which is updated by each extension
reserving a namespace is too fragile, but maybe we could produce
something similar to ftok(3) to derive a free namespace number.
TimedMediaHandler tried to do this (it picked the lowest free
namespace number above 100 or something), and I made Michael take it
out. The reason was that variable namespace numbers are very, very,
bad:
* It will usually result in the same namespace having different
numbers on different wikis
* If you add site-specific namespaces or install another extension
using the same technique, the namespace number may change and all your
pages will be messed up
Roan