On Oct 12, 2011, at 9:27 AM, Sergiu Dumitriu wrote: > On 10/11/2011 10:04 AM, Thomas Mortagne wrote: >> hi devs, >> >> The idea is that in Maven in general you should never embed anything >> except for final distribution packages that are not supposed to be >> used as dependencies of other maven projects (installers, standalone >> packages, etc.). This will also allow us to properly setup >> dependencies in xar so that dependency is installed when installing a >> xar in Extension Manager without its pages being imported twice. >> >> So I propose the following changes: >> * in xar plugin: >> ** stop embedding dependencies as default behavior > > +1 > >> ** introduce an optional property for it. > > +0 > >> * in XE/XEM have two different xars: >> ** a normal one with just XE pages and proper dependencies setup >> ** a "standalone" one which embed all XE dependencies xar (basically >> the one we have now) > > Not quite sure I like this. > > First, we're supposed to be moving documents out of xwiki-enterprise and > into application modules inside the platform, so there shouldn't be any > XE XAR at all, just a list of default dependencies to include in the > standalone database.
There'll always be a few pages dedicated to XE, if only for the home page :) > Second, if we do push forward the extension manager as the preferred way > of installing XARs, then such a bundle XAR shouldn't be needed at all. Yep, however thomas is talking about now and not in 4 months time. What you say will become true in the future. That said, even at that time we'll still want a super-bundle IMO since we need to allow people to download something off the internet put it on USB key and later on install it on machine which are not connected to the internet (for example this is the norm usually in operation centers at lots of companies where they have strict policies about which computer can access the internet for security reasons). > For the standalone distribution the packager plugin could just install > the XE shallow XAR + its dependencies, I have thought about this and I don't agree. For me we need to keep the import/export feature for *backups*. The Extension Manager isn't going to replace that. They're both different use cases. > while for WAR installs users > could just pull it using the extension manager. So, the big fat XAR > shouldn't have any use either. Thanks -Vincent >> WDYT ? >> >> Here is my +1 _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
