I think it would be useful even for developers. Having only a zip to get to run the latest XWiki Standard flavor and starting working with, and a single place to put our patched JARS instead of looking at the good location on extensions/repository, would definitively make our life easier.
However, this might be easy to create with the packager plugin for people (like me) who need it. 2017-04-04 14:40 GMT+02:00 Thomas Mortagne <[email protected]>: > On Tue, Apr 4, 2017 at 2:34 PM, Eduard Moraru <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I would like to see a single download on the XWiki Download page: XWiki. > > > > This distribution should be a minimal distribution (in various formats: > > war/jetty+hsqldb/deb/etc.) that has the minimal stuff required for EM+DW > to > > function, to launch the Flavor selection screen and to install a Flavor. > > Installing the Standard/Default/KB flavor will install, as dependency, > the > > Base Flavor and everything will be brought in with EM. > > > > This is what I remember to be the original plan for the Flavors effort > and > > I`m still +1 for it. > > This is the plan (at least it's mine :)) but that does not really > answer the question: should we maintain a jetty/hsqldb package of the > KB flavor for testers who knows where to get it. > > > > > Thanks, > > Eduard > > > > On Tue, Apr 4, 2017 at 2:08 PM, Ecaterina Moraru (Valica) < > [email protected] > >> wrote: > > > >> My vision is that in the future we will have more Flavors supported, not > >> just the KB one. > >> I'm sure we would want to have at least one more flavor for Development, > >> for example. > >> So what will be the strategy? will we provide packaging for all the > >> "support" Flavors? The argument would be the same, having the jetty > package > >> will be easier to use and test on it. > >> > >> Thanks, > >> Caty > >> > >> On Tue, Apr 4, 2017 at 1:18 PM, Thomas Mortagne < > [email protected] > >> > > >> wrote: > >> > >> > On Tue, Apr 4, 2017 at 12:11 PM, Vincent Massol <[email protected]> > >> > wrote: > >> > > Hi Thomas, > >> > > > >> > >> On 4 Apr 2017, at 11:48, Thomas Mortagne < > [email protected]> > >> > wrote: > >> > >> > >> > >> Hi dev, > >> > >> > >> > >> The title say it all. > >> > >> > >> > >> The whole point of Knowledge Base flavor move is to stop > maintaining a > >> > >> set of install packages and only provide the flavor. > >> > > > >> > > For me there’s a difference between the flavor and the packaging we > >> > propose. The goal of the flavor is not stop maintaining packagings > but to > >> > offer various content > >> > > >> > It's possible you are mixing stuff here. I'm not talking about stop > >> > providing any jetty/hsqldb package, you would have the XWiki one on > >> > which you are asked which flavor you want. I'm only talking about a > >> > special Knowledge Base one. > >> > > >> > > > >> > >> Now it could be a pain for testers to have to install the flavor > every > >> > >> time so we might still release a jetty/hsqldb package but not list > it > >> > >> on http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/Download for example. > >> > >> > >> > >> WDYT ? > >> > > > >> > > This packaging is one of the most widely used because it’s one of > the > >> > simplest to get started with XWiki. > >> > > > >> > > See the green share on http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/ > >> > bin/temp/space/page/chart/1795539013.png > >> > > > >> > > So I think we should definitely keep it. > >> > > > >> > > Thanks > >> > > -Vincent > >> > > > >> > >> > >> > >> I would prefer to avoid that but I can understand if others think > it's > >> > required. > >> > >> > >> > >> Thanks, > >> > >> -- > >> > >> Thomas Mortagne > >> > > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > -- > >> > Thomas Mortagne > >> > > >> > > > > -- > Thomas Mortagne > -- Guillaume Delhumeau ([email protected]) Research & Development Engineer at XWiki SAS Committer on the XWiki.org project
