+1 for 4) (unique category/type that is specific to the XWiki Extension Repository).
Thanks, Marius On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 12:14 PM, Thomas Mortagne <[email protected]> wrote: > OK I mixed a bit the number after a last miute refactoring of the mail... > > On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 11:09 AM, Thomas Mortagne > <[email protected]> wrote: >> 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) > > It's of course > > 3) A tag "Flavor" (or some other name to be decided later) > 4) A unique category "Flavor" (or some other 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). > > I'm sure you understood it's 4) here :) > >> Plus exposing categories is a nice new feature anyway. >> >> -- >> Thomas Mortagne > > > > -- > Thomas Mortagne > _______________________________________________ > devs mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
