+1 for the whole idea, and +1 for the Caty's remark. Having a package with everything installed makes users win time. At least we should have it for ourselves...
2017-04-18 14:31 GMT+02:00 Marius Dumitru Florea < [email protected]>: > Sounds good. +1 > > Thanks, > Marius > > On Fri, Apr 14, 2017 at 4:51 PM, Thomas Mortagne < > [email protected]> > 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. > > > > 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 ? > > > > Thanks, > > -- > > Thomas Mortagne > > > -- Guillaume Delhumeau ([email protected]) Research & Development Engineer at XWiki SAS Committer on the XWiki.org project
