Hi devs,

There is many ways to make an extension a flavor and we need to chose one.

Here are a few I have in mind:

1) Extension of type FLAVOR (compared to XAR and JAR types for example)
2) A Boolean indicating if an extension is a flavor
2) A tag "Flavor" (or some of the name to be decided later)
3) A unique category "Flavor" (or some of the name to be decided later)

I don't like 1) because a flavor does have anything special and I
don't see the point of reimplementing a new extension type handler
just to make an extension a flavor.

I'm really not a fan for 2) either since it would makes this part of
the core of extension API which I really don't like since flavor are
XWiki runtime specific while you can use the xwiki-commons part of
Extension Manager for many use cases that don't have anything to do
with XWiki right now.

So I'm hesitating between 3) and 4). When I started thinking about it
I was more into 3) since we already have tags in XWiki Repository but
since I saw that in both Android and IOS each application is in a
unique category I'm tempted to change my mind and give my +1 to 3).
Plus exposing categories is a nice new feature anyway.

-- 
Thomas Mortagne
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