Hey,
> But if essentially any SMW-based extension can get added, then I don't
see what the big benefit is.
> ...
> have symbolic links to the right version/tag/branch of each extension
> ...
> But perhaps I'm missing something in this whole thing.
I think so - if you go back to my initial list of advantaged you'll see
that they are not all obtained with the Semantic Bundle approach (or having
links to git tags, which is essentially the same).
> at the very least, it would take a lot of time and coordination
Yes, it forces the maintainers of the extensions to manage their code
properly or have it end up being disabled by default (if it was not
already) and tagged as unstable/unmaintained/foobar. Having things work
will not be more difficult then it's now, people will just be more
incentivezed to have their code working with the latest SMW release. If you
consider that everything is released together, it's actually easier for
maintainers to have their stuff working property due to much simpler
compatibility requirements.
> And even if you accomplish that, there are still other extensions, like
Validator
> and Maps, that would require coordinating outside of the SMW repository.
I shall repeat: this is our current situation. Yes, we'll still need this
coordination. I fail to see how the proposed change has any negative impact
on this. The only (little) impact I can see it have is this coordination
being simpler since you'll only need to check compatibility between these
extensions and (extended) SMW rather then against all individual components.
Cheers
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Jeroen De Dauw
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