+1 Thanks, Marius
On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 5:18 PM, Vincent Massol <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi devs, > > I'd like to propose to write a Distribution Maven Plugin that would have the > following features: > > * Ability to generate XWiki config files. > * Ability to generate a full expanded XWiki Distribution. Here are the steps > it will do (since I have a first working version I'm pasting what it > currently does): > ** Step 1: Expand Jetty resources into the package output directory. > ** Step 2: Get the WAR dependencies and expand them in the package output > directory. > ** Step 3: Copy all JARs dependencies to the expanded WAR directory in > WEB-INF/lib > ** Step 4: Copy compiled classes in the WEB-INF/Classes directory. This > allows the tests to provide custom code, for example to override existing > components for the test purpose. As an example the link checker might want to > override the HTTP Checker component so that checks are not done over the > internet since the tests need to execute in a stable environment to prevent > false positives. > ** Step 5: Generate and copy config files. > ** Step 6: Copy HSQLDB JDBC Driver > ** Step 7: Unzip the Colibri Skin > ** Step 8: Import specified XAR files into the database > * Ability to generate a full zipped XWiki Distribution > * Ability to import XARs > > Use cases: > * Simplify the current build (XE, XEM, etc) by using this plugin > * Use it to generate custom packaging to write functional tests for platform > modules > * Allow xwiki developers to easily generate custom distributions by > handpicking platform modules + their own modules > > As mentioned above I've worked on this and I'm going to commit a first > working version real soon. My current goal is to write some functional tests > for the linkchecker-ui module. > > ATM I have added a new "package" mojo as part of the packager plugin but I'd > like to create a new xwiki-platform-tool-distribution-plugin in the future > and deprecate the current packager plugin. > > Thanks > -Vincent > _______________________________________________ > devs mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
