On Oct 8, 2013, at 5:07 PM, Sergiu Dumitriu <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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. Except that all modules in enterprise start with xwiki-enterprise so that would be xwiki-enterprise-product-archetype and I believe it's overkill since there's only 1 archetype ATM. If everyone thinks that xwiki-enterprise-product-archetype is better than xwiki-enterprise-archetype, I'll change it. Thanks -Vincent _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
