(In reply to comment #0)

I recently installed APC (pecl apc install) and did many new MediaWiki
installations. At the end of of MW installation you see three checkboxes with
options to enable the use of cache methods like APC (see
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Cache#PHP_caching )

In my opinion, like with the Suhosin patch and other non-standard things, the
MW isntallation should try to detect whether APC and similar things are active
duing the installation.

The installer should then _propose_ (active the corresponding checkbox) the
most recommended method, which is available on that server.

Isn't this what the installer already does (See's whats available, and suggests using it to the user)?

Yes, we already detect these and give you the option -> WFM.

(In reply to comment #2)

Yes, we already detect these and give you the option -> WFM.

Yes, I saw three options, but APC (the second) was not pre-selected.

I suggest in the case, where APC is available to show and to PREselect this box.

This is what I suggest, so that an installing person has minimal efforts to the select the optimum environment for MediaWiki.

Sorry, if I was not clear in my original report.

Not worth the effort to auto-select it. WFM.

john wrote:

The the cache question is after the "Ask me more questions" phase so in some cases the user never sees it, so it makse sense that a default should be selected. If you want I can do this for 1.20

(In reply to comment #5)

The the cache question is after the "Ask me more questions" phase so in some
cases the user never sees it, so it makse sense that a default should be
selected. If you want I can do this for 1.20

Well, we can't help if people are being impatient ;-)

Tweaking summary so it'll stop wrapping in subject lines ;-)

Also: we already detect and offer them, this is now about auto-selecting a checkbox.

(In reply to comment #5)

The the cache question is after the "Ask me more questions" phase so in some
cases the user never sees it, so it makse sense that a default should be
selected. If you want I can do this for 1.20

Exactly. Shame on me, as I did not describe clearly enough what I wanted, but at the end you all understood me fully.

By the way, APC is really increasing the speed, but every MediaWiki admin should increase the (APC) installation default value from 32MB to 50..64MB (my suggested value). This gives > 99% cache hits in a large scale (8000 users) implementation.