<html><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div>Paul</div><div><br></div><div>This is a great way to achieve plugin combos.</div><div><br></div><div>Especially as it provides a way to create a superset plugin definition that could define plugins for Seam3, JavaEE6, etc.</div><div><br></div><div>What would be cool is if there was an option to install all the plugins that are defined</div><div><br></div><div>Ken<br><br>Sent from my iPhone</div><div><br>On Jun 4, 2011, at 4:54, Paul Bakker <<a href="mailto:paul.bakker.nl@gmail.com">paul.bakker.nl@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>I think I've got a very simple solution for this working, have a look at this branch: <a href="https://github.com/paulbakker/core/commits/plugin-repo"><a href="https://github.com/paulbakker/core/commits/plugin-repo">https://github.com/paulbakker/core/commits/plugin-repo</a></a><div>It's a new plugin, I added it to the core for now, and believe it belongs there. The plugin does nothing else than parse a remote xml file. The xml file looks as follows:</div>
<div><br></div><div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><plugin></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><name>Arquillian</name></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><url>git://<a href="http://github.com/forge/plugin-arquillian.git"><a href="http://github.com/forge/plugin-arquillian.git">github.com/forge/plugin-arquillian.git</a></a></url></div>
<div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></plugin></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><plugin></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><name>OSGI</name></div>
<div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><url>git://<a href="http://github.com/forge/plugin-osgi.git"><a href="http://github.com/forge/plugin-osgi.git">github.com/forge/plugin-osgi.git</a></a></url></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></plugin></div>
<div><br></div><div>It will than prompt the user: Which plugin do you want to install: </div><div><div> 1 - [OSGI]</div><div> 2 - [Arquillian]</div><div> 3 - [Seam Persistence]</div></div><div><br></div><div>After the user chooses a plugin it will install the plugin by executing "forge git-plugin [url]"</div>
<div><br></div><div>If we add this to the core and keep the xml external a user is always able to install known plugins easily. New plugnis can be added to the xml file without rebuilding the source.</div><div><br></div><div>
If we go forward with this idea we can also add things like automatic updates for example.</div><div><br></div><div>Thoughs?</div><div><br></div><div>Paul</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 7:46 AM, Lincoln Baxter, III <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lincolnbaxter@gmail.com"><a href="mailto:lincolnbaxter@gmail.com">lincolnbaxter@gmail.com</a></a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">+1, let's see how it goes :) definitely open to options.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div></div><div class="h5">
On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 5:02 PM, Brian Leathem <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bleathem@gmail.com" target="_blank"><a href="mailto:bleathem@gmail.com">bleathem@gmail.com</a></a>></span> wrote:<br>
</div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div></div><div class="h5">+1<br>
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On 05/31/2011 01:54 PM, Paul Bakker wrote:<br>
> I would like to prototype a PluginPackage (one of the names we<br>
> discussed) and see how that works out. If we like that way we can keep<br>
> the plugins separated, otherwise we can re-consider. Shall I assign<br>
> the JIRA issue to myself?<br>
><br>
> Paul<br>
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