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00001 The classes in this directory are general utilities for use by any part of
00002 MediaWiki. They do not favour any particular user interface and are not
00003 constrained to serve any particular feature. This is similar to includes/libs,
00004 except that some dependency on the MediaWiki framework (such as the use of
00005 MWException, Status or wfDebug()) disqualifies them from use outside of
00006 MediaWiki without modification.
00007
00008 Utilities should not use global configuration variables, rather they should rely
00009 on the caller to configure their behaviour.