On Wed, Aug 31, 2016 at 12:28 PM, Guillaume Delhumeau <[email protected]> wrote: > 2016-08-30 10:16 GMT+02:00 Vincent Massol <[email protected]>: > >> >> > On 29 Aug 2016, at 14:16, Guillaume Delhumeau < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> > >> > OK so let me introduce my third (3) proposal properly. >> >> You mean (4) (since mine was the (3) one ;)). >> >> > 3.1 - Only one WAR, containing only what we consider as core extensions. >> > There is nothing to exclude, we manually select the modules that are >> > indispensable so that oldcore and DW can run. >> > >> > 3.2 - For the Jetty/HSQLDB packaging, we use my plugin that pre-installs >> > the extensions needed by the default flavor. >> > >> > 3.3 - Drop support for "ui-all" xars. Knowing that in a near future, we >> > will let the user chose a flavor, we won't propose "ui-all" xars for all >> of >> > them along with a proper WAR to run them. >> >> I don’t know how many users use that but that’s probably low indeed. >> >> My only problem with this is that I think this is how users who are >> offline can install XWiki easily, no? >> >> I think we do need to offer a way to install XWiki offline. It doesn’t >> have to be through the ui-all XAR though. What do you suggest? >> > > In that case we can follow your proposal, having an "extensions" directory > in the WAR which are automatically installed when XWiki is started. Inside > this directory, we should also bundle XARs extensions so that "ui-all" xar > become useless and we can drop it.
This is http://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XE-1420 but as Vincent said in the issue it only make sense for a flavor that would provide its own WAR (what XE currently does but we are supposed to stop that at some point and only provide a flavor). When you only have a minimal WAR for which you choose a Flavor at startup it does not really make much sense. > > >> >> > That should cover our use-cases. >> > >> > Note that when multiple flavors will be released, we won't have a >> > Jetty/HSQLDB packaging for each one. >> >> IMO, the XWiki Core Dev Team will only propose one real flavor (the >> replacement of XE - I call it “Knowledge Base” but I don’t remember if >> we’ve finished our brainstorming on this topic, probably not) so it >> shouldn’t be an issue. >> >> Since Jetty/HSQLDB is for trial we shouldn’t have a package for the base >> flavor (which IMO is only for OEM and thus don’t require a Jetty/HSQLDB >> packaging). >> >> Thanks >> -Vincent >> >> [snip] >> _______________________________________________ >> devs mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs >> > > > > -- > Guillaume Delhumeau ([email protected]) > Research & Development Engineer at XWiki SAS > Committer on the XWiki.org project > _______________________________________________ > 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
