On 04/14/2017 09:51 AM, Thomas Mortagne wrote: > Here is a new proposal on this subject. > > This supersets the following threads: > * http://markmail.org/message/mhhurc7lbyfanph7 > * http://markmail.org/message/nav5a77hzmhq4gq6 > * http://markmail.org/message/fd5ijxdquzdhtykw > > We discussed with other committers (Vincent and Ludovic) and came to > the conclusion that it was not core dev team job to provide a specific > flavor like Knowledge Base and that we should focus only on a very > generic one (pretty much XE without the Blog). > > Here are the details: > > = One flavor > > We develop only 1 flavor located in xwiki-platform repository. It's a > generic flavor not targeting any specific use case (the first version > with be XE without the Blog). We will discuss the name in another > thread later, let's call it "Wiki Flavor" for now. > > Of course everyone is free and welcomed to build lots of contrib > flavors which will be proposed when you install XWiki ("Development > Flavor", "Demo Flavor", "Blog Flavor", etc.). > > = No "Base flavor" > > But platform will provide an extension that can be used as dependency > by various flavors to get "core" UI extensions that we think make > sense in any kind of flavor. > > = Demo package > > We currently have a jetty/hsqldb based package in platform which let > you choose which flavor you want. We will show it in the download > page. > > We will add another one with the Wiki Flavor already installed in it > (pretty much like the XE jetty/hsqldb package). Listed on the download > page too.
Why? Is it that bad to always let the user choose the flavor? We can split flavors into three levels: - The "Raw XWiki" flavor is on top, pre-selected - Recommended flavors are next, in a list - All flavors behind a "browse more" button The only case when leaving the standalone package empty might fail is in a no-internet environment, but for this we can have a workaround: make the jars, xars and poms needed for installing the base flavor available in the package. Everything else sounds good, +1. > We don't maintain exe/jar installers anymore in platform, they die > with XWiki Enterprise. They are a real pain to maintain and we are > actually failing since they don't really work properly everywhere they > are supposed to work. It does not worth the trouble for what is not a > production ready package and it's better anyway to make more clear > XWiki is a server thing. > > WDYT ? -- Sergiu Dumitriu http://purl.org/net/sergiu/
