On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 9:15 AM, Vincent Massol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Erwan, > > On Jun 6, 2008, at 7:22 AM, Erwan Loisant wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> First of all thank you for that great piece of software; I'm going to >> deploy it in my company because I could demo a project management >> application that I wrote in a couple hours (starting without much >> knowledge of xwiki). That's going to make everyone life's easier. > > Great! We love to hear these kinds of stories. Keep them coming! > >> So, I started to build a prototype based on this tutorial (I believe >> this is Velocity) >> http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/DevGuide/FAQTutorial > > You can also check this more detailed tutorial: > http://www.theserverside.com/tt/articles/article.tss?l=XWiki > >> Now, I'm trying to get a good workflow to go beyond the trivial app. >> I'm hoping for source code management, be productive while coding, and >> an easy way to deploy the app on a different wiki (i.e. build it on my >> machine then deploy on production). Later, I may want to keep a dev >> version in parallel of the prod version so I can play around without >> making executives mad at me for breaking stuff... And deploy the >> changes to the prod when it's ready. >> >> So, here we go: >> * SCM: I noticed that, being a wiki, there's basically a SCM included. >> Even if versions are page based instead of project based, that's >> probably enough. > > Yep. If not you can still save your xwiki pages in your favorite SCM > (by doing exports/imports) but it involves more steps. > >> * Text editor: is there a way to use my preferred text editor (that >> happens to be VI) rather than my web browser? I remember seeing >> Eclipse used in a demo in SF, is it possible with other editors as >> well? > > Yes we have a tool called XEClipse: > http://code.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Extensions/XEclipseExtension > This should allow you to get the best productivity. You can even > install it inside Eclipse and use the vi keybinding if you want I > guess... ;) > > You can use any text editor for writing wiki page content and then > later on copy/paste them in xwiki pages. The only issue you'll have is > with Objects/Classes since you won't be able to define them in your > editor. BTW we've just added support for Objects in XEclipse (not > released yet, needs to be built from trunk).
If you are using Firefox you can also use https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4125 > >> * Import/export: I could only find export of the whole wiki. I guess >> there's a way to export a selection of pages (or a whole space?) but I >> couldn't find it. What about classes? Are classes just a special kind >> of page that can be exported along with the rest? > > Classes are in pages so they're also exported/imported. Re selective > we're missing this as part of the main feature (we should really add > it especially as it's not hard). We do have some way around, see > http://xwiki.markmail.org/search/?q=selective%20export - in the menu Print -> Export as XAR which export the current page. See http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Features/Exports - you can use Application Manager which provide selective import/export, translation page registration etc... See http://code.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Applications/ApplicationManagerApplication. > >> * I think I read somewhere that properties can't be deleted from >> classes. Is it still true? If yes, is there a way to get rid of a >> property (for example by deleting the class then recreate it) without >> loosing all instances? > > Unfortunately this is not ready yet. Someone was working on it 1 or 2 > months ago. You can follow > http://jira.xwiki.org/jira/browse/XWIKI-99 to monitor the status. > >> In general, is it unrealistic to try to get that kind of process with >> an app that is just made of custom classes and a set of Velocity >> scripts? > > No. That's what we're trying to achieve in the near future. So far > we've worked mostly on the wiki platform/engine. I think the coming > months will see improvements in the development features of xwiki. > > Thanks > -Vincent > > > > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list > users@xwiki.org > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users > -- Thomas Mortagne _______________________________________________ users mailing list users@xwiki.org http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users
