7 Jul
2017
7 Jul
'17
12:01 p.m.
Hi,
It`s very nice to hear we are progressing on this topic, but I`m not very
fond of the current solution. Marking dependencies as optional still puts
the responsibility on the developer to actually do that and makes the admin
dependent on the developer's choice and discipline. Feels more like a
workaround that we will end up having to support.
Working for building whitelists is a tedious process and we will surely
miss things, and this is only about things that we control in the standard
flavor. What about extensions and their dependencies?
Sure, as Caty suggests, one option is to make everything optional by
default and only have to explicitly specify if a dependency is mandatory.
Hoping we can get to a point where all the power is to the admin running
XWiki, not the developer.
Getting past the above "critique", it's still very nice to hear that we
will now have one solution to this old problem.
Thanks,
Eduard
On Wed, Jul 5, 2017 at 6:43 PM, Thomas Mortagne <thomas.mortagne(a)xwiki.com>
wrote:
On Wed, Jul 5, 2017 at 5:41 PM, Vincent Massol
<vincent(a)massol.net> wrote:
marked as
optional (ie force uninstall at your own risks)?
If it's not optional then... it's not optional and require to
uninstall backward dependency.
still need
some pages from AWM.
Actually I tough about that and IMO if an extension has AWM pages it
should have a non optional dependency on AWM (i.e. it would be
optional from flavor point of view but non optional from other
extension point of view).
ofc).
Hi Thomas,
> On 5 Jul 2017, at 17:00, Thomas Mortagne <thomas.mortagne(a)xwiki.com>
wrote:
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 :)).
This is very nice. What if I want to uninstall an extension which is NOT 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
I think it needs some refactoring first since the pages it generates * xwiki-platform-linkchecker-ui
* xwiki-platform-sandbox
* xwiki-platform-sharepage-ui
* xwiki-platform-distribution-flavor-tour
* application-templates-ui
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 ?
The list sounds good to start with (we need to test remove them first
Thanks
-Vincent
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