2007/9/9, Vincent Massol <[email protected]>:
On Sep 9, 2007, at 11:22 AM, Thomas Mortagne wrote:
2007/9/8, Vincent Massol <[email protected]>:
On Sep 8, 2007, at 3:10 PM, Thomas Mortagne wrote:
Hi,
I think it's a good idea. Just a more detailed thing targeting XEM and other multiwiki products: It would be great to have installer with izpack "<pack></pack>" organized one wiki/xar a pack and create sub wiki from attached xar as you said and XWikiServer document at installer runtime.
WDYT ?
For XEM I see 3 packs:
* Platform Core * XEM Admin XAR * XEM Template XAR
Is that what you mean?
Yes it's that, for now. I suppose latter we will have more template (Blog wiki, Wiki wiki, ...).
Yes that's a very good idea. Once we have separated XE into applications we could have the following XARs: - Blog - Search - Admin - Panels - Navigation - Photo Album - etc
See below for another idea.
Now for creating sub wikis, I think it might be best to leave that to the XEM Admin XAR so that when an admin logs in the Admin XAR he has the buttons for creating and administrating sub wikis. I don't see that as a feature of the installer but more a runtime feature (as anyway the admin needs the option of creating/removing sub wikis).
That feature already exists in the Admin wiki but It will be easier for a user to have theses templates in an installer interface. Plus if we have lots of template wiki (which I thinks would be great) use installer lighten Admin wiki.
Actually I think we could go a step further for all applications, templates, etc. I envision an online XWiki repository of applications, plugins, templates, etc, and in the admin part of XE or XEM you'll be able to see all of them ,see whether they are already installed or not and if not, have the option to install them.
I think this is even nicer and offer more capabilities than a static installer.
Cool a wiki-apt-get :) Yes you are right it is not very difficult to do (when we will define xwiki application format with dependecies etc.) and it will improve a lot xwiki usability and applications contribs I think.
Thanks -Vincent
2007/9/6, Vincent Massol <[email protected]>:
Hi,
I'm proposing to improve the generic install to add database configuration setup:
1) include different database driver jars in the installer 2) have some installation panels to let the user choose the database to use (using some combo box and fields to modify default DB values) 3) include the XAR in the installer 4) use the packager tool to import the XAR in the database at install time (using the information provided in 2))
Note: I'd also like to modify the web/standard build so that we release only a single WAR without database driver and without DB configuration.
Advanced users will configure it manually and novice will use the installer.
WDYT?
Thanks -Vincent
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