Re: [xwiki-devs] [PROPOSAL] Yet another new platform flavor proposal or how to get rid of XWiki Enterprise

Here is a new proposal on this subject. This supersets the following threads: * http://markmail.org/message/mhhurc7lbyfanph7 * http://markmail.org/message/nav5a77hzmhq4gq6 * http://markmail.org/message/fd5ijxdquzdhtykw We discussed with other committers (Vincent and Ludovic) and came to the conclusion that it was not core dev team job to provide a specific flavor like Knowledge Base and that we should focus only on a very generic one (pretty much XE without the Blog). Here are the details: = One flavor We develop only 1 flavor located in xwiki-platform repository. It's a generic flavor not targeting any specific use case (the first version with be XE without the Blog). We will discuss the name in another thread later, let's call it "Wiki Flavor" for now. Of course everyone is free and welcomed to build lots of contrib flavors which will be proposed when you install XWiki ("Development Flavor", "Demo Flavor", "Blog Flavor", etc.). = No "Base flavor" But platform will provide an extension that can be used as dependency by various flavors to get "core" UI extensions that we think make sense in any kind of flavor. = Demo package We currently have a jetty/hsqldb based package in platform which let you choose which flavor you want. We will show it in the download page. We will add another one with the Wiki Flavor already installed in it (pretty much like the XE jetty/hsqldb package). Listed on the download page too.

We don't maintain exe/jar installers anymore in platform, they die with XWiki Enterprise. They are a real pain to maintain and we are actually failing since they don't really work properly everywhere they are supposed to work. It does not worth the trouble for what is not a production ready package and it's better anyway to make more clear XWiki is a server thing. WDYT ?