Hi, I thought that we need a web module since there are a lot of files that belong to the s5 application which can't currently be distributed in another way, meaning the javascript/css/vm files. One way to do that using only a xar would be to attach them to a XWikiSkins object enabled in Presentations.WebPreferences, but this would require that all presentations are created in the Presentations space, and we need to make sure that s5 can be easily configured to work with those URLs. Easily means that when a new version of s5 is out, we don't have to spend more than 5 minutes to upgrade. A better solution involves Interface Extensions, but it would take a lot more time until it can be done that way. Btw, I'm almost ready to make a proposal + implementation ideas in a few days regarding Interface Extensions. For the moment, it is a real PitA that there's no way to make an application completely independent of the core skin/template files. And I'm not that sure that my commit was such a good idea, but for the moment it doesn't make any difference, since the application is mostly unusable at the moment. Anyway, I created the web submodule because I was looking at the files in the platform-web/templates+skins directory, and there were a lot of files belonging to the s5 applications which I had no idea how to distribute inside a XAR. Sergiu

We need to discuss this since this is starting something new that we've never discussed.

How do you plan to distribute the s5 application? I don't see how to do that with a web module or do you mean that this web module will generate a zip that the user will manually unzip in his xwiki webapp? Should we distribute 2 files (XAR+ZIP) or one file (a single zip containing both)?

Also this raises the question of plugins which I've started to discuss some time ago: should they go in applications or stay in plugins/?

Thanks -Vincent

On Nov 26, 2007, at 6:59 PM, sdumitriu (SVN) wrote:

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Author: sdumitriu Date: 2007-11-26 18:59:12 +0100 (Mon, 26 Nov 2007) New Revision: 6086

Added: xwiki-platform/xwiki-applications/trunk/s5/wiki/ xwiki-platform/xwiki-applications/trunk/s5/wiki/pom.xml xwiki-platform/xwiki-applications/trunk/s5/wiki/src/ xwiki-platform/xwiki-applications/trunk/s5/wiki/src/main/ Removed: xwiki-platform/xwiki-applications/trunk/s5/src/ xwiki-platform/xwiki-applications/trunk/s5/wiki/src/main/ Modified: xwiki-platform/xwiki-applications/trunk/s5/pom.xml Log: Create a submodule for the wiki pages, as this application should also contain velocity templates and skin files that will go in a web module.

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