[xwiki-dev] One WAR with everything, one empty WAR and/or one WAR per database?

[Artem Melentyev]

+1 to 3)
I agree with Vincent.
The less platform depend on the environment, the better.

Vincent Massol wrote:
> 1) 1 WAR per database
> - We could start by releasing only 2 WARs: one for HSQL and one for
> MySQL. I don't think we need more and releasing more is going to be a
> pain as each WAR weights 40MB.
> 
> 2) 1 WAR with everything
> - Cons: having all these DB drivers makes our WAR fatter
> - Possible solution: we only release the HSQL and MySQL drivers
> 
> 3) 1 empty WAR
> 
> I feel 3) might actually be the best solution for the following reasons:
> - if the user is non technical he'll install the standalone version
> - if the user is technical it means he shouldn't have any problem
> following install instructions that tell him to download such driver at
> such location and put it in WEB-INF/lib
> - we only release one common WAR and our XWiki Platform is environment
> independent (which is a new property to have I think)
> - releasing one WAR makes our release process simpler (only 40MB to
> release once)
> 
> WDYT?

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  Artem Melentyev, UralSU