On 10/08/2013 10:58 AM, Vincent Massol wrote:
> 
> On Oct 8, 2013, at 4:21 PM, Sergiu Dumitriu <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> On 10/07/2013 11:23 AM, Vincent Massol wrote:
>>> Hi devs,
>>>
>>> I'd like to add an archetype module in xwiki-enterprise so that users can 
>>> easily extend XE to create their own distributions.
>>>
>>> It'll generate a multimodule project with *-web, *-ui, *-data and 
>>> *-distribution modules (and possibly installers in a second version).
>>>
>>> I remember some users asking for this (e.g. Fabio) and I have the need 
>>> myself now.
>>>
>>> WDYT?
>>>
>>
>> +1, but the name should be more generic, like
> 
> you mean less generic, not more :)

No, I mean more generic. xwiki-enterprise is too specific, it means
exactly the XWiki Enterprise product.

>> xwiki-distribution-archetype, because that's what it builds, custom
>> distributions built on top of XWiki, not enterprises for XWiki.
> 
> I chose voluntarily to not have xwiki-enterprise-distribution-archetype 
> because it doesn't build distributions. It generates all modules to build a 
> product based on XE.
> 

Right, "product" is the right term. I used "distribution" as a synonym
of "product" (like a Linux distro) not with the "packaging/installer"
sense that's used in the actual XE modules.

So, +1 for xwiki-product-archetype.

-- 
Sergiu Dumitriu
http://purl.org/net/sergiu
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