As planned by the XE 2.5 roadmap
(
http://enterprise.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/Roadmap) i would like
to move extension manager to the platform. It's one application for
the UI and one jar for the framework (plus several MB of
maven/classloading dependencies).
The rationale is that it makes it easier to try and play with it to
have as much comments as possible.
It would be "taged" as experimental which means anything in it can be
changed anytime and nobody can expect a code that use this component's
API to not be broken.
The current state of Extension Manager is summarized in
http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Design/ExtensionManagerProposal#HPlanni…
and detailed in the rest of the document.
I'm pretty confident it's not dangerous for the rest of XE when you
don't use it and it can't slow down it or something.
So WDYT ?
Here is my +1.
Thanks,
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Thomas Mortagne