On Thu, Sep 01, 2011 at 04:39:03PM +0000, Mark Diggory (Commented) (DuraSpace JIRA) wrote: > > [ > https://jira.duraspace.org/browse/DS-1005?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=22237#comment-22237 > ] > > Mark Diggory commented on DS-1005: > ---------------------------------- > > > Responding to Richards original comments: > > > 2/ Until DSpace has a well developed "add on" mechanism for external modules > > (see, for example, the EPrints Bazaar), I'm not sure how well releasing > > modules separately is going to go. Perhaps there is some other guidance on > > this that I've not yet seen, though? > > > There is a well defined addon mechanism for developers, unlike EPrints > Bazaar, it is for developers, not for system admin / endusers. Its called > "Maven" and you can add anything you want to DSpace via the modularity > mechanisms that Maven provides. Ironically, at this time, this is the exact > same mechanism that Fedora uses.
Well, that crystallizes something I've been struggling with for years. I want an add-on mechanism *for sysadmins*. [Wearing my sysadmin hat] When I think of "add-on", here's what I expect: o drop a JAR into an existing installation, or unpack a tarball on top of it; o perhaps edit one or two lines of readily-accessible configuration data to make the product core aware of the existence of the add-on. o configure the add-on as needed. Hacking a POM and reassembling the whole product doesn't even come close. I intend no disparagement of the existing code. Add-ons in the above sense weren't part of the requirements. I do intend to suggest that we give thought to how we could improve the deployability of third-party add-ons in DSpace, without requiring the use of developers' tools. -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer mw...@iupui.edu Asking whether markets are efficient is like asking whether people are smart.
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