10 Jul
2017
10 Jul
'17
12:51 p.m.
2017-07-05 17:00 GMT+02:00 Thomas Mortagne <thomas.mortagne(a)xwiki.com>om>:
Hi everyone,
I just implemented https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XCOMMONS-1229 which
allows to indicate that a dependency will be installed by default but
does not have a string dependency link with the extension, meaning
that uninstalling it won't impact the backward dependencies (so they
are not really backward dependencies in that case :)).
Now we need to decide what exactly is optional in Standard flavor.
Here are some ideas:
* application-help-center
* xwiki-platform-menu-ui
* xwiki-platform-wiki-ui-mainwiki
* xwiki-platform-office-ui
* xwiki-platform-invitation-ui
* xwiki-platform-appwithinminutes-ui
* xwiki-platform-linkchecker-ui
* xwiki-platform-sandbox
* xwiki-platform-sharepage-ui
* xwiki-platform-distribution-flavor-tour
* application-templates-ui
These should be optional too:
* xwiki-platform-flamingo-theme-bootswatch - Flamingo Theme Applications
comes with 4 theme by default, all others are not mandatory
* xwiki-platform-help-ui - XWiki could work without help section
* xwiki-platform-user-directory-ui - XWiki could be used without the User
Directory
* xwiki-platform-annotation-ui - XWiki could work without annotation
* xwiki-platform-tag-ui - XWiki could work without annotation
* xwiki-platform-watchlist-ui - We could live without watchlist
* xwiki-platform-scheduler-ui - Same
* xwiki-platform-notifications-ui - Same
Maybe:
* xwiki-platform-panels-ui - but I wonder how the administration app handle
its absence
Note that xwiki-platform-appwithinminutes-ui is a dependency for a lot of
apps, but I agree it could be seen as optional from the flavor point of
view.
I did not actually tried to uninstall those so
it's possible it's not
a good idea to uninstall some of them right now (hardcoded use
somewhere maybe).
WDYT ?
--
Thomas Mortagne
For the rest, either we should permit or not to force the uninstall/install
of dependencies is an other topic (either with EM or Extension Tweaker -
I'm in favor of this for reasons explained by Edy, but it's an advanced
case). I think we could rely on what the app's developer has marked as
mandatory/optional in most of the case and that system is the safest.
Thanks,
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Guillaume Delhumeau (guillaume.delhumeau(a)xwiki.com)
Research & Development Engineer at XWiki SAS
Committer on the XWiki.org project