[Proposal] New locations for skins in SVN and their delivery format

Hi, As previously discussed, it would be nice to put skins in a specific location in SVN so that we can start delivering skins separately from the main distribution. I'm proposing to put the skins in: xwiki/xwiki/trunks/ |_ skins/ |_ <skin1>/ |_ <skinN>/ The web/* modules builds would still bundle one skin. Now the question I still have is how do we make the skins available to end users? We have 2 options: 1) We could provide them as zips. The users would then have to have access to the machine where the wiki is running and unzip them in the skins/ dir of the webapp. 2) Provide them as a single XML document (with all files attached to the skin document), as a XAR. I think option 2 is much better as it allows users to install the skin without requiring access to the machine. Note: Sergiu tells me that we need to check that attaching all the files to a skins document works as he had some issues with an old wiki. As a reminder Sergiu tells me that skin files are searched in 5 places: - XWikiSkins object property - skin doc attachment - skin directory - base skin - default skin It's a little bit more complex in term of build but it should still be doable. Here's how I envisage it: * have the skin files in the <skinN> directories as mentioned above * have the build use the XWiki Java API to do the following: - create a Document - add a XWikiSkins object to it - for each file in <skinN> attach it to the Document - export the Document in XML * have the build create a package file (XAR format) and create a XAR file Thus each <skinN> modules would produce a XAR file WDYT? Thanks -Vincent ___________________________________________________________________________ D�couvrez une nouvelle fa�on d'obtenir des r�ponses � toutes vos questions ! Profitez des connaissances, des opinions et des exp�riences des internautes sur Yahoo! Questions/R�ponses http://fr.answers.yahoo.com