[xwiki-devs] XAR source projects should allow source files

Hello fellow developers, many of you are developing XAR-packaged resources. The exchangeability of these archives is one of the precious aspects of XWiki, I believe. However, if one see all the many GitHub-contributed xar packages, the source is not there: it's in a Wiki with which one would "open it". A pity since much of the content is code. I'd like to propose to allow XARs to be built form source code which is true source that one edits. Code files with their proper syntax coloring, editors, auto-completion, search. Media-files that are edited with our tool of choice by a simple double-click and not a complex pull, edit, and replace. Thus, my proposal is to allow inclusions within the XML files. Inclusions should be of type: - text to include page content or object properties (e.g. css of cssx objects) - attachments to include attached objects My current setup is documented here:http://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-13643 It does binaryInclude to generate base64 and textInclude to generate XML-text. Thus, I can advertise a github project which is a macro and whose complex function is in a velocity file that is in a .vm file. However, I do not need to explode everything, e.g. the text-content describing the macro or (in this case too small) translation set. What do you think? Should I rather generate complete attachment elements (name, length, modif date, ...) instead of doing a binaryInclude that just generates base64 ? Is fetching files for inclusion beyond the boundaries of the project of any use? (it is currently prohibited for safety) thanks in advance. Paul