If we can put it xlet repository it will be better.

-arvind

On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 10:23 PM, Sergiu Dumitriu <[email protected]> wrote:

> Guillaume Legris wrote:
> > Hi dev folks,
> >
> > I developed a math plugin ("MathTex") to render LaTeX math expressions in
> XWiki.
> >
> > Currently the plugin supports two formula renderer:
> >   - The default one (contained in xwiki-plugin-mathtex-core.jar) is
> > LGPL and thus can be embedded in the XWiki packages
> >   - The other one is GPL (powered by JMathTex) and gives better
> > results. It can used by adding the xwiki-plugin-mathtex-ext.jar to the
> > classpath and adding a parameter to the xwiki.cfg to override the
> > default renderer
> >
> (xwiki.plugins.mathtex.builder=org.thenesis.xwiki.plugin.mathtex.JMathTexFormulaImageBuilder)
> >
> > In order to work this plugin requires modifications of some parts of
> > the XWiki default classes/files:
> >   - xwiki.cfg
> >   - macros.txt/macros.vm
> >   - struts-config.xml
> >   - XWikiRightServiceImpl.java (privileges for actions)
> >
> > So an admin couldn't just grab it from the plugin zone and make it
> > work out-of-the-box.
> >
> > Hence I would like to propose this plugin for integration in XWiki
> > with two alternatives:
> > 1) Full integration
> > 2) Partial integration (macros, struts-config.xml,
> > XWikiRightServiceImpl.java changes) + users still have to load the
> > plugin jar(s) from the plugin zone.
>
> What Guillaume forgot to ask, what do we do with the plugin? Should it
> be part of the core? Should it be put on code.xwiki.org? Should we setup
> the xlets repository?
>
> --
> Sergiu Dumitriu
> http://purl.org/net/sergiu/
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