-p legacy is the only thing that uses mediawiki-utilities, and it exists
solely to reproduce numbers from research predating the mwxml and
mwtypes split. The package is a 2015 monolith that also contains
mw.database and mw.api, so it declares requests and pymysql
unconditionally: every wikiq install pulled a MySQL client and six other
packages to support one flag, building them from an sdist that has no
wheel.
Move it to a `legacy` extra. mw.lib.persistence imports nothing from
mw.database or mw.api, so nothing about -p legacy changes for people who
install the extra, and everyone else stops paying for it.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
(cherry picked from commit 66dcc6d8cea620a619fc19121b5c27a085b11991)
Benjamin Mako Hill
70b0ebcf0c