25 Nov
2008
25 Nov
'08
10:51 a.m.
On Nov 25, 2008, at 10:43 AM, Jerome Velociter wrote:
Thomas Mortagne wrote:
I'm not sure if this is right. It might be ok for now since we don't
have a lot. But very soon we'll have some macro that are not ready to
be released or that are a bit "exotic" (I'm not sure for the map
macro) or that have a different release cycle (it's a pain to have to
wait 3 months to release a macro that is ready for consumption for
ex). For me this is exactly similar to plugins. We don't release them
all when we do a XE release.
-Vincent
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 10:50 PM, Jerome
Velociter
<jerome(a)xwiki.com> wrote:
I gave it more thoughts, and I think I agree with Thomas. I think it's
better to have the macros we plan to officially support in one place.
Plus, if we bundle them by default with XE, having them in core
together
with the other macros would prevent us of having to state the
dependency
explicitly at XE level, as we have to do for plugins that are in
platform/plugins/ for example. Hello devs,
This week we created a new "xwiki-macros" module under platform/
core/
for macros of the XWiki Syntax 2.0. Another question now is what
do we
do for macros that are not "core macros" (i.e. not indispensable for
what we consider being the basic working wiki, unlike the TOC
macro, or
the velocity macro). Development of such macros already started, for
example the instant messenger status macro, and the map macro.
Possibilities I see :
1. having them at the same level we have applications/ plugins/
under
platform : adding a macros/ directory.
2. having them in the xwiki-macros core submodule, despite the
fact they
are not core
I am for solution 1 right now, but maybe there are better
alternatives
to this, too.
We also have to decide how we do release and distribute them, for
example do we pack them with XE, or do we release them separately,
and
let users install them themselves as it is the case for most of the
applications already. (For me the answer to this latest question
seems
obvious : we _should_ send them together with XE)
Let me know what you think, I'd like if still possible having the
map
macro in 1.7 RC1.
+1 for 2. especially if we plan to distribute them with XE. Anyway
having them in core/xwiki-macros does not means it is automatically
in
the "basic working wiki" and all the macros we officially support
should be in the same place IMO.