I think there is a misunderstanding due the the first mail that was not very clear.
What Vincent did here is not something that creates XWiki distributions (for example XE), it's something that create XE distributions (something that inherits XE). On Tue, Oct 8, 2013 at 6:12 PM, Sergiu Dumitriu <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ > devs mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs -- Thomas Mortagne _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
