Re: [EXTENSIONS]: proposal to deprecate all extension snippets that are not packaged as oxt

2013-02-13 Thread Jürgen Schmidt
On 2/8/13 11:16 PM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: On 06/02/2013 janI wrote: I assume (without really knowing it) that there is an easy upgrade path for extensions currently not being an oxt to become one. We need to document (if not already done) this upgrade in a way, that motivates the extension

Re: [EXTENSIONS]: proposal to deprecate all extension snippets that are not packaged as oxt

2013-02-13 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Jürgen Schmidt wrote: it seems that nobody has stronger concerns against this proposal and I think no vote is necessary. I will draft a blog and a mail to our announce list that we will deprecate older package extensions with 4.0 and that we will support oxt packages only in the future. You

Re: [EXTENSIONS]: proposal to deprecate all extension snippets that are not packaged as oxt

2013-02-08 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 06/02/2013 janI wrote: I assume (without really knowing it) that there is an easy upgrade path for extensions currently not being an oxt to become one. We need to document (if not already done) this upgrade in a way, that motivates the extension developers to do it. Same for me: enforcing

[EXTENSIONS]: proposal to deprecate all extension snippets that are not packaged as oxt

2013-02-06 Thread Jürgen Schmidt
Hi, currently we can deploy many extension snippets, for example we can deploy single xcu files, single jars, etc. All the single deploy units that typically are packaged today in an oxt file with some further meta data. On the way to a cleaner and less complex extension deployment process I

Re: [EXTENSIONS]: proposal to deprecate all extension snippets that are not packaged as oxt

2013-02-06 Thread janI
+1 I assume (without really knowing it) that there is an easy upgrade path for extensions currently not being an oxt to become one. We need to document (if not already done) this upgrade in a way, that motivates the extension developers to do it. rgds Jan I. On 6 February 2013 17:04, Jürgen