18 Apr
2019
18 Apr
'19
2:39 p.m.
Hi Paul, I commented the jira issue and the PR.
I don't see any harm in this approach at meast so it's a +1 from me.
On Tue, Apr 16, 2019 at 3:06 PM <paul(a)hoplahup.net> wrote:
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Thomas Mortagne
> On 26 Aug 2016, at 13:50, Vincent Massol
wrote:
[...]
> * What I understand is that you’re not
proposing to change the XAR
> format but to introduce some tooling to generate a XAR from a set of
> source files, at build time. Correct?
[...]
I am rewaking this rather older subject (see
http://xwiki.475771.n2.nabble.com/XAR-source-projects-should-allow-source-f…
and older things mentioned there) with yet another attempt which might
satisfy everyone: an attempt to use XAR-Transformations to include files
into XARs. It defines two extra transformations:
- INSERT_TEXT (using an XPath expression): inserts the content of the
text file
- INSERT_ATTACHMENT_CONTENT (using a file name): inserts the content of
a file in base64
The attempt is detailed in https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XCOMMONS-1614
and has a pull-request and an example realisation.
I claim that this attempt allows project developers to nicely edit files
and let them be combined into a xar when it is the time. See the issue
for an example realisation.
I would love your comments.
Paul