On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 2:45 PM, Jeremie BOUSQUET
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Off topic, but I had a quick look at EM code (server+UI) in github, and
> amount of work is very impressive ...
> IMO that was a great addition to xwiki ! :)
>
> I plan to try to reuse and integrate some bits of it (of the UI part I
> mean, with logs display and progress bar...) for my app.

Yes all the non strictly extension related stuff are meant to be used
for many other things but we still need to take some time to
physically separate the UIs from EM codebase even if Marius made them
pretty generic already in term of behavior.

>
> BR,
> Jeremie
>
>
> 2013/9/30 Thomas Mortagne <[email protected]>
>
>> This is the plan, what is needed mostly is for EM to got back on the
>> top of my todolist...
>>
>> On Sat, Sep 28, 2013 at 8:22 PM, Jeremie BOUSQUET
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > Hello,
>> >
>> > I'm doing some manual tests of my app, and use EM to install it first,
>> with
>> > an extension repository targeting my m2 local repository, my app being in
>> > version 0.3-SNAPSHOT.
>> >
>> > When I fix something, I reinstall a new 0.3-SNAPSHOT of the app in my
>> maven
>> > repository, and update the app in my xwiki instance.
>> >
>> > One thing that would be very nice, would be to be able to force the
>> update
>> > of an already installed extension, even if it's in same version (ie,
>> > 0.3-SNAPSHOT), or even better to allow this update if a more recent
>> > -SNAPSHOT artifact exists (in the artifact, or in one of its
>> dependencies).
>> >
>> > Currently, it's not possible as EM sees it as installed and proposes
>> > nothing else than "uninstall" action. So, to update my app, I have to
>> stop
>> > my server, patch each new .jar file directly in xwiki data dir under
>> > /extension/repository/blablabla, then restart the server. Uninstalling
>> > before does not help as the artifacts are kept in this location anyway
>> (and
>> > not rechecked as long as expected version is found). Also, I don't want
>> to
>> > uninstall, as usually I edit UI parts directly in xwiki, so I'd
>> eventually
>> > prefer a merge as managed by EM.
>> >
>> > That feature would save my day as developer/tester :)
>> >
>> > WDYT ?
>> > (maybe it's my process that is poor)
>> >
>> > BR,
>> > Jeremie
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