[Dspace-devel] Maven optional modules

2014-11-14 Thread TAYLOR Robin
Hi all, Was away yesterday so just read the notes from the developer meeting. With regards to our Maven optional modules, rather than finding a way to accommodate them in our Pom's should we maybe be looking to not have optional modules? The expectation is that the LNI will be dropped for the

Re: [Dspace-devel] Maven optional modules

2014-11-14 Thread helix84
Hi Robin, last year we talked about making LNI optional because it has only a few users, so the reason was to reduce build times. I don't remember us talking about dropping it (confirmed by a quick search in IRC logs). I don't see a reason to drop something that we have that is a standard

Re: [Dspace-devel] Maven optional modules

2014-11-14 Thread Tim Donohue
Regarding the LNI discussions, there's a ticket related to removing LNI from default DSpace. The suggestion is that we move it to its own separate GitHub project (and folks who want to use and maintain it still can). As far as I'm aware though, we have little (if any) users of LNI these days.

Re: [Dspace-devel] Maven optional modules

2014-11-14 Thread Tim Donohue
Robin and all, Regarding the optional modules: It seems like in 5.0, we have to move forward with these modules as optional. At least to me, it seems like it'd require a lot of work/time to make Mirage2 required -- plus it drastically lengthens the time it takes to build DSpace (unless you

Re: [Dspace-devel] Maven optional modules

2014-11-14 Thread Peter Dietz
I would rather mirage2 be a regular (compiled) xmlui theme. I rarely add new JS libraries, and when I do, I can include them via script src. For CSS/JS minification, you could use a service like cloudflare cdn to serve compiled/cached versions of your sites. I guess, the old flow allowed me to