Thorsten Scherler wrote:
El mar, 03-01-2006 a las 13:25 +1100, David Crossley escribió:

Ross Gardler wrote:

I propose that themes be distributed as plugins rather than having them all in the themer plugin. ...


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Resuming all above, I am with you that we need a system to package
themes and make them downloadable but disagree about the overhead to do
it with a plugin.

What overhead? Specifics please.

Note that I already addressed the point about docs, which should be removed from the download and packaged separately. This is easily done by adding an <exclude...> pattern to the ant script.

Note that things like input.xmap, locationmap.xml etc. are only used if they are present.

I agree as well on the naming convention, so how can we use the old
fashion skin download mechanism for themes?

The plugin download mechanism *is* the original skin download mechanism (with versioning added).

Ross