On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 5:58 PM, Vincent Massol <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Caleb, > > On May 22, 2012, at 5:00 PM, Caleb James DeLisle wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I understand we agreed in >> http://lists.xwiki.org/pipermail/devs/2012-March/050172.html to stop >> bundling legacy modules by default. What was not so clear is how we should >> do this. >> >> I want to remove the modules from XE and Manager, and document the method of >> downloading them from >> maven.xwiki.org and replacing the existing .jar files with them. > > It's not enough IMO. Here's a likely scenario: > > * Users will download the version without legacy modules. > * Then they'll use the Extension Manager to install extensions from > extensions.xwiki.org > * The extensions will fail > * Users will ditch xwiki since it just doesn't work and the quality is > perceived as not good enough. > > We need to solve this before we can stop bundling the legacy modules IMO. > >> Why: >> >> #1. Not removing API is obviously unsustainable in the long term. >> >> #2. Replacing core .jar files has been judged to be beyond the scope of the >> extension manager. >> Whether we want to support overriding classes using extensions as a >> "function hooking" mechanism is a possible topic for future discussion. >> >> #3. Replacing .jar files in the .war is not an excessively complex task, we >> ask users to open the >> war file for configuring a database or adding JDBC connectors, cases where >> there is much less >> technical need to require opening the .war file. >> >> >> Here's my +1 to remove it ASAP, for 4.1M2 if we can get the tests passing. >
> -1 till we solve the question above. I'd rather keep legacy modules than have > dissatisfied users. -1 for the same reason. Thanks, Marius > > Thanks > -Vincent > >> >> Caleb > > _______________________________________________ > devs mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
