On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 12:42 PM, Vincent Massol <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Nov 24, 2011, at 12:23 PM, Thomas Mortagne wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 10:18 AM, Vincent Massol <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> Hi Roman,
>>>
>>> On Nov 24, 2011, at 9:54 AM, Roman Muntyanu wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi Sergiu,
>>>>
>>>>   Those are fine improvements, I'm curious though.
>>>>    * Will the extension manager pick-up/show the extensions I have already 
>>>> installed?
>>>
>>> It depends… :)
>>>
>>> The EM will pick up all jars put in WEB-INF/lib or in the classpath in 
>>> general.
>>>
>>> However if you've installed pages from a XAR by importing it then no it 
>>> won't notice it (AFAIU - Thomas should confirm this).
>>>
>>> It's a good point though, we might want to do something to handle this use 
>>> case.
>>
>> It's not that easy, there is no way to know that a wiki page is coming
>> from some application without talking of what is the id/version of
>> this application if it hasn't been installed by Extension Manager.
>
> I can think of 2 solutions (haven't thought much about it though):
> * Based on a hash of the page which will work if the page(s) haven't been 
> modified

And how is this hash will help you identify the extension ?

> * Based on an Application Descriptor that the user would install and that 
> lists all the pages making up the application and by modifying the EM to 
> support reading from these descriptors to find installed apps

So not with existing applications which was the question.

>
> Thanks
> -Vincent
>
>>>>    * Will there be a UI/functionality for removing previously installed 
>>>> extension? (Especially in those cases when plugin installation required 
>>>> copying and container restart like 
>>>> http://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Extension/Excel+Plugin )
>>>
>>> Yes, this is already possible. The UI should already allow for this too.
>>
>> If it has been installed by Extension Manager.
>>
>>>
>>> Since this is our very first release of an EM UI we would love to have some 
>>> feedback, not so much about the UI itself (we're not finished yet about 
>>> what we want to achieve, see 
>>> http://incubator.myxwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Improvements/ExtensionManager).
>>>
>>> Sergiu: do we have support for merge conflicts and handling them in this 
>>> first UI?
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>> -Vincent
>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Roman
>>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf 
>>>> Of Sergiu Dumitriu
>>>> Sent: Thursday, November 24, 2011 10:43 AM
>>>> To: XWiki Developers; XWiki Users
>>>> Subject: [xwiki-users] [Announcement] XWiki Enterprise and XWiki 
>>>> Enterprise Manager 3.3 Milestone 2 Released
>>>>
>>>> The XWiki development team is proud to announce the availability of XWiki 
>>>> Commons, XWiki Rendering, XWiki Platform, XWiki Enterprise and XWiki 
>>>> Enterprise Manager 3.3 Milestone 2. The highlights of this release
>>>> are:
>>>>
>>>> * a new user interface for the extension manager
>>>> * new features for the Application Within Minutes aspect
>>>> * a new and improved FAQ application has been committed in the platform, 
>>>> although it's not bundled by default in XE
>>>> * support for exporting PDF documents for CJK languages
>>>> * a new rendering transformation that can be used to check the status of 
>>>> any link encountered in the wiki
>>>>
>>>> And on the developers' front:
>>>>
>>>> * support for dependency Providers, as defined in JSR330
>>>> * a Disposable interface for singleton components which can be used to 
>>>> release resources when a component is being unregistered
>>>>
>>>> See the full release notes at
>>>> http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/ReleaseNotes/ReleaseNotesXWikiEnterprise33M2
>>>> for more details.
>>>> --
>>>> Sergiu Dumitriu
>>>> http://purl.org/net/sergiu/
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