[xwiki-devs] applications & plugins

[Erin Schnabel]

I am just full of feedback today.

Is there a reason that an application (which would of course go in a
xar) is created so far away from the plugin it's interdependent with?
i.e. the Application Manager is one application that consists of  both
XWiki documents in a xar file and an Xwiki plugin. Having one half in
plugins, and the other half in applications doesn't make a lot of
sense-- they're one thing.

The same goes with some of the other plugins, actually.. Some might
have macros associated with them, and maybe they want those macros to
be in the DB.

A few of the plugins get around this by creating the documents they
need programatically (as I  suggested with the PluginGuide), but it
seems like there has to be a better way of managing "plugins with an
application face" then having them in separate trees.

Then again, maybe I'm nuts.

:-P

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'Waste of a good apple' -Samwise Gamgee