Improvements to packaging for extensions?

Friday 06 August 2004 5:59:37 am

Is there a plan for this support in the near future? The bug is filed as:

http://ez.no/community/bug_reports/packaging_extensions

Im concerned at the consequences of not having this support. I havent seen any mention as being targeted for 3.5 so i guess thats out. That leaves 3.6/4.0 as the next possible target, but given the ez cycle of around 6 months per release this means we cannot package an extension for another 8+ months at the minimum. This isnt good.

Given that the initial activity for contributions to pubsvn and here on ez.no has all but dried up more needs to be done on the packaging side to make it far easier to install and configure. This may spur people to create more and get the ball rolling properly.

I want to improve our Worldpay extension to include new user classes and objects, plus include an country datatype and new template to show how the whole thing works. Im waiting until i can package extensions before adding this otherwise i'll have to redo it all again. With 3.5 the payment api has changed anyway, so...

Please finish the functionality for the package system and support extensions.

paul

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Wednesday 11 August 2004 2:16:34 am

Bumping this topic.

Wednesday 11 August 2004 8:19:23 am

Thanks Jan,

One problem a contributer would face is with the time spent figuring out which bits of the kernel need to be added to. If there isnt time for a full implementation by eZ would there be time for a spec to point out the relevent areas that should be worked on?

Here im thinking of a spec that has more detail than creating package handlers/installers... :)

Paul

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