Re: RIFE/Modules

> I don't think it's a big deal to say that the existing jumpstart is a
> prerequisite. I doubt anyone will have an issue with the idea that the
> modules are a plugin or addon to the base RIFE distribution. I don't
> expect a Firefox extension download link to give me Firefox too, to name
> one not very appropriate example.
>
> Besides, it is quite likely that the vast majority of the people
> downloading the modules will already have the jumpstart anyway, since
> they will want to go through one of the tutorials to find out if they
> care about RIFE in the first place. So bundling it all together would
> just make a bigger download for those people.
>
> As long as we work out some scheme where people can install multiple
> modules over a jumpstart distribution without them overwriting each
> other, we should be fine. The participant and site declarations are the
> only sticky point there; maybe the "include" mechanism needs support for
> wildcards, so we can just stick additional XML files in a couple known
> directories and they'll be picked up automatically by an <include
> file="rep/site/modules/*"/> directive or something like that? (I guess
> that might not be so easy to do when things are packaged into a war file
> and there is no actual directory to scan, but it's a thought.)
>
> -Steve
>
>
> Geert Bevin wrote:
> > So, do you guys have any idea about how to structure this? I was
> > initially thinking of building this on the structure of the jumpstart,
> > but I'm now not so sure that this is a good idea. I did do this for
> > RIFE/Crud though, and people don't seem to have a problem with it
> > since the binary distribution is simply a jar file. The advantage of
> > including the jumpstart is that it's very easy to develop examples and
> > allow people to try out the components. A disadvantage is that the
> > included jumpstart needs to be kept up-to-date with each release, and
> > doing this already takes up a lot of my time.
> >
> > What do you guys think?
>
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