Hi Edy, sounds good to me. We can also have a step in the install / upgrade wizard for users to decide whether they want one / several wikis at first.
I have questions / suggestions about the default set of templates to include by default once this switch is effective (maybe 1 standard wiki template and 1 workspace template?), but they're the topic of another discussion. Guillaume On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 2:07 PM, Eduard Moraru <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi devs, > > According to the Roadmap of 5.0 [1][2] we will be deprecating the virtual > mode API and moving to a virtual-by-default mode instead. > > The idea is that the multiwiki environment should be the default and, > anyone wanting to use the single-wiki mode (as XE was doing in the past), > will simply not create any subwiki. It is just pointless to have 2 products > for such a simple fact and it also confuses users that have downloaded and > started to use one product and later on realise that they needed the other. > Also, when installing the wiki-manager and/or workspace extension(s) > (because you might want to create subwikis/workspaces), there will be no > need to stop the wiki, enable-virtual mode and restart it; all will be > doable in the browser. > > Therefore, I`m sending this mail to ask your opinion about this topic, in > case you might have something to say against it, and also to brainstorm on > the required changes and implications on existing code so that the > transition is as smooth and invisible as possible. > > Proposed changes: > - Remove "xwiki.virtual" from xwiki.cfg(.vm) > -- remove the usage of the "$xwikiCfgVirtual" maven property from > xwiki-platform (, xwiki-enteprise and xwiki-manager) > - Deprecate boolean com.xpn.xwiki.XWiki.isVirtualMode() (and the api.XWiki > version) > -- change its code to ((getVirtualWikisDatabaseNames(context).size() == 1) > ? true : false) until it is removed by the deprecation process. > > Possibly needed changes: > - Add main wiki default descriptor to xwiki-enterprise-ui (so that > getVirtualWikisDatabaseNames includes the main wiki and also to avoid DNS > issues (?) caused by how we handle virtual mode) > -- or have it generated programmatically at startup if it does not exist > (might be safer this way, since people might be using a different UI than > xwiki-enterprise-ui) > > I will start working on this locally and see if I can spot other issues, > but please share your thoughts. > > Thanks, > Eduard > > ---------- > [1] http://markmail.org/message/o6adfbscpidnn7zr > [2] http://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-8822 > _______________________________________________ > devs mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
