[Pkg-giraffe-discuss] Try out to package kopano-webapp-plugin-files* fails

[Carsten Schoenert]

Hello,

On 08.12.2016 10:27, Marco Costantino wrote:
> Hi
> 
> Perhaps the easiest even if duplicates code would be to have the
> code in every plugin?
> 
> This way the plugin are self contained and do not depend on anything
> else, if I have understood correctly that is. 

well we obviously don't want duplicated code. So I disagree here. Every
plugin is depending on the core code, the kopano-webapp and sometimes
maybe on other plugins. So the correct way is declare the right
dependencies between the packages.

[...]
>> Yup, it's sort of the right way. The WebApp has 'build tools' in the
>> tools directory (for concatenating css. JavaScript) and
>> server/manifest.dtd  
>> to verfiy the manifest.xml file
>>
>> Since we didn't want to copy these files to every plugin, we internally
>> have created a simple "kopano-webapp-buildtools" package.
>> Which in reality should be a split package from kopano-webapp. 
>>
>> To be honest it's a bit ugly, looking at our debian.rules file:
>>
>> override_dh_auto_install:
>> 	install -d -m 755 $(INSTDIR)$(TOOLSDIR)
>> 	cd tools && ant && cd ../
>> 	cp -rf server tools plugins/ $(INSTDIR)$(TOOLSDIR)/
>>
>> And in our plugin we build it as following, (and make depend on
>> buildtools)
>>
>> ant -Dtools-folder=/usr/share/kopano-webapp-buildtools/tools/  \
>>       -Dserver-folder=/usr/share/kopano-webapp-buildtools/server/ 
>>    -Dtarget-folder=deploy -Dplugin-folder=files -Dplugin=files deploy;
>>
>>
>> I hope that helps, otherwise I can probably share the
>> kopano-webapp-buildtools package.
>> I think copying the whole plugins directory is a bug.. :) I think it
>> really needs plugins/build.xml to be copied for the plugin to build.

Why Kopano can't collect all the various plugins into one source
package? This way the zarafa-webapp was working and it was the best way
I can imagine in a backview. Yes, there can be exceptions of course.

If you cut all in small pieces every time one tiny thing is changing you
have to check and test all the stuff with a lot of effort. And this
makes packaging more difficult.
I see no problem to do so as all the installation work is done by the
package tools in the distributions. I currently have really some
problems to collect the various extras into packages in a valuable way.
And right now I'm out of time for doing more packaging ...

-- 
Regards
Carsten Schoenert