How to install RSS_Reader ?

RSS_Reader is an extension. It must be because it says so on the MetavidWiki and on the MediaWiki wiki. The problem that I face is that it has not been packaged as an extension.

That is a shame for several reasons.

• I cannot install it
• messages do not get internationalised and localised at translatewiki.net
• it prevents me from building a complete MetavidWiki test wiki with the installer
  

The information on the MetavidWiki says that it is "version 0.2.3". Now what if I need to run the software on a previous release. I may need "version 0.2.2" and I cannot get it because it is not in SVN.

I confess that I am not a developer. But I am quite sure that when you follow the instructions, you have something that might actually work. A developer, a real one, someone who Brion trust to submit to SVN, could then make it an extension so that I could do my "monkey see, monkey do" routine.
Thanks,
      GerardM

Installing SemanticResultFormats

Programming is what I used to do a lot. The reason why I am programming again is because I am working on the documentation for the Wikiation Installer. I cannot document properly what I do not really understand and programming some installer scripts is one way of getting to grips with the issues.

I am testing in the "Fosdem" environment, this is where developers may test the existing functionality... I did install Semantic MediaWiki and I decided that I wanted to install SemanticResultFormats as well. I read the documentation and I found that due to a non standard include, I had to write an installer script. This is annoying but trivial

I tested it, the version special page reports it as being installed so I was good. However, it struck me that SemanticResultFormats has in SemanticMediaWiki a prerequisite. So I dabbled some more in the download.sh only to come to the conclusion that this is not the place where prerequisites are to be tested. The reason for this is that the include would be excercised anyway. When SemanticMediaWiki is not there, the whole installation should abort.

Writing installation scripts does help me understand the environment, it will help me write better documentation and in the mean time, I find where the software can use some more refinenment. I do confess that I am looking for the corner cases and so far I am really pleased how the installer is improving.
Thanks,
GerardM