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Jeanne Waldman commented on TRINIDAD-1691: ------------------------------------------ Why isn't putting the version into the skin-family name good enough? <skin-family>purple1.1.12.4</skin-family>. It's not quite the same as versioning, since we wouldn't change the version number every time we release. > Skinning framework support for skin versioning > ---------------------------------------------- > > Key: TRINIDAD-1691 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TRINIDAD-1691 > Project: MyFaces Trinidad > Issue Type: New Feature > Components: Skinning > Reporter: Matt Cooper > > UI designers periodically create new UI designs for various components with > the goal of these designs being applied to a specific skin. Although the > visual design might be completely new for a given component, it is really > meant to be available in context of other existing component designs of the > same existing skin. > UI changes like this are sometimes considered to jarring for some customers > and they would rather stick with the original designs. This means that skins > are eternally frozen after their first release so any new changes would need > to be made in a new skin even though that new skin might be 75% identical to > the original skin. > There is also a negative impact on customers that generate their own skin > definitions when we introduce a new skin name. Every skin (or skin addition) > that they have created won't be able to uptake the new designs unless they > physically go in and change all references from the old skin name to whatever > the new skin's name is. To remedy this while enabling the "frozen" state of > the original designs, the skinning framework must support a concept of > versioning. Since the nature of software means that code lines branch into a > vast tree structure, the version numbers of the skinning framework must > fulfill this need. A simple "x.y" will not be sufficient, we will require > "x.y.z.a.b.c.d.e.f.g" and so on where each "." represents another code branch > off of the previous code branch, e.g. there will likely be a version that > looks like "1.1.12.4". > Customers will then need a configuration option where they can specify which > version of the skin they want to use. (Presumably near the same location > where they specify which skin name they want to use.) > Business needs: > Some customers need new UI designs applied to existing skins but other > customers need the skin to remain unchanged. Versioning will allow customers > to optionally buy-into the new UI designs while other customers can happily > live with the past designs. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.