On 26 Aug 2016, at 13:50, Vincent Massol wrote:
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* What I understand is that you’re not proposing to change the XAR format but to introduce some tooling to generate a XAR from a set of source files, at build time. Correct?
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I am rewaking this rather older subject (see http://xwiki.475771.n2.nabble.com/XAR-source-projects-should-allow-source-files-td7600774i20.html and older things mentioned there) with yet another attempt which might satisfy everyone: an attempt to use XAR-Transformations to include files into XARs. It defines two extra transformations:
- INSERT_TEXT (using an XPath expression): inserts the content of the text file - INSERT_ATTACHMENT_CONTENT (using a file name): inserts the content of a file in base64
The attempt is detailed in https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XCOMMONS-1614 and has a pull-request and an example realisation.
I claim that this attempt allows project developers to nicely edit files and let them be combined into a xar when it is the time. See the issue for an example realisation.
I would love your comments. Paul
