On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 19:03, Vincent Massol <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Mar 19, 2010, at 6:54 PM, Jean-Vincent Drean wrote: > >> On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 6:47 PM, Vincent Massol <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> On Mar 19, 2010, at 6:36 PM, Jean-Vincent Drean wrote: >>> >>>> On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 6:08 PM, Vincent Massol <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Proposed Solution: >>>>> =============== >>>>> >>>>> 1) Look for a system property (e.g. xwiki.config.dir) defining a >>>>> directory location and if defined look for the files in it using File IO >>>>> (I know it's not JEE kosher but it's acceptable IMO). Could be relative >>>>> or absolute. >>>>> 2) If not found, look for a JNDI property that gives the location of the >>>>> config directory >>>>> 3) If not found, look for config files in [user.home]/.xwiki >>>>> 4) If not found, emit an error explaining how to configure xwiki >>>> >>>> We could keep the config files in the WAR and fallback on them, WDYT ? >>>> It would have an interesting side effet, some could only overwrite a >>>> couple of config entries in ~/.xwiki/xwiki.cfg and leave the other >>>> entries up to the xwiki.cfg bundled with the WAR (which could evolve >>>> between releases). >>> >>> I've thought about it but it doesn't mean much IMO since: >>> - hibernate.cfg.xml require configuration to work >>> - default values should be in the code and not in the config files since >>> XWiki should work with no xwiki.properties or xwiki.cfg. >> >> It'd be perfect but some values aren't in the code, and some shouldn't >> be imho, the first example I can think of is the list of plugins. > > Yes, for values that don't have default in the code, I think we should move > the in the code. Actually that's: > > UC5: Make XWiki work without configuration files.
Don't mix platform default and XE default configuration values. > > Solution for UC5: > * Put default values in the code so that XWiki works if there's no xwiki.cfg, > xwiki.properties or hibernate.cfg.xml files. We would default to HSQLDB by > default. > > WDYT? > > Thanks > -Vincent > > > _______________________________________________ > devs mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs > -- Thomas Mortagne _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
