On 10/08/2013 11:15 AM, Vincent Massol wrote:
> 
> 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.

Should that really be a module of xwiki-enterprise? To me it looks like
a tool, which could have been used to create xwiki-enterprise itself.

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