Hi Christian,

you bring up some valid points. Please copy your proposition and paste into a 
feature request in qooxdoo’s bugzilla, just to make sure it doesn’t get lost.

We’ll take it definitely into consideration.

Best,
Andreas

Am 27.04.2014 um 23:11 schrieb panyasan <[email protected]>:

> Just an idea that occurred to me today: The qooxdoo sdk is quite big and
> contains a lot of code that is not needed in the (or at least in my) normal
> development workflow. I would assume that typically, only the "framework"
> and "tool" folders are actually used. I go to the qooxdoo website for
> everything else: API viewer, playground, Widget browser, instead of building
> it locally.
> 
> I wonder if it wouldn’t make sense to move the „components“ and the
> „applications“ to the contributions. This would have several advantages:
> 
> - the SDK becomes slimmer (if not much in code size, then at least in
> complexity)
> - this would add some top-quality contributions, increasing the value of the
> registry on the whole
> - the core devs would have a bigger incentive to use the contributions
> infrastructure themselves, thus insuring that it well-maintained and
> functional (for example, concerning dependency management)
> 
> To be sure, this would mean that the process of adding the contributions
> back to one’s development environment must be easy to ensure that they are
> actually used. In a related proposal [1], I have suggested that adding and
> removing contributions should be possible without manually adapting the
> config.json, using the command line. This could be done with the
> applications and components, using the generator as well, for example, like
> so:
> 
> ./generate.py contrib-install playground
> 
> or something like this to download and install the playground as a
> contribution. 
> 
> Of course, these contributions wouldn’t be „libraries“ in the sense that
> they would be part of the main application. Instead, they would have to be
> downloaded and built in separate subdirectories.
> 
> As I said, just an idea, but in a longer perspective, it seems to make a lot
> of sense to remove the components and applications from the „SDK“ and put
> them into an infrastructure for modular pieces of code that works with the
> core framework code.
> 
> [1] http://bugzilla.qooxdoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8285
> 
> 
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