Kicking the Repligard habit

Greetings!

Here is an idea about making the Midgard setup process completely  
Repligard-free. That would enable us to deprecate Repligard earlier,  
and would also make style template creation and packaging much easier.

This really calls for an mRFC, but I wanted to post the quick idea  
here as it came up on #midgard.

[20:25] bergie: torben: I've been thinking of killing m-t in favor of  
some files + "compiled" configuration snippet in /sitegroup-config.  
That's what you wanted all along, right?
[20:26] torben: yep
[20:26] torben: although i'd put that compiled config directly into a  
generated code-global
[20:26] torben: the less work you have to do, the better
[20:26] bergie: true
[20:26] torben: unless mgd_include_snippet is caught by mmp in the  
code-global element
[20:26] bergie: ...and for compatibility I could make a style that  
would provide "m-t -like" elements
[20:26] torben: the key is that mmp must catch this,
[20:27] torben: true
[20:27] bergie: ...and then upgrade tool that would make a site's  
style child style of the "m-t style"
[20:28] bergie: probably the generated hosts/root pages should have  
some parameter noting that they're MidCOM sites generated with some  
version, so they could be upgraded as needed
[20:34] torben: yeah
[20:34] torben: that should be easy
[20:34] torben: would it be an idea tying this to the midcom version?
[20:38] bergie: yeah, guess so
[20:38] bergie: "2.5" etc
[20:39] bergie: or maybe the full version string
[20:39] bergie: anyway, this way the site wizard could generate the  
full config, and it would be editable using normal admin UI
[20:39] bergie: ...or by changing settings later in site wizard
[20:40] torben: yup
[20:41] bergie: mainly I guess "code-global" should be machine-generated
[20:46] torben: yup, although you could "encaspultate" the auto- 
generated part insome ////// AUTOGENERATED START|END range, so that  
one can add additional stuff
[20:46] torben: though i'm not sure if i like it
[20:46] bergie: I'll think about it a bit
[20:46] bergie: needs an mRFC anyway :-)
[20:46] bergie: Basically the idea is to get rid of Repligard in  
Midgard install
[20:47] torben: yeah, definitly
[20:47] bergie: * Move style templates to "Mambo-like" packages
[20:47] bergie: * There are no admin UIs that need importing any more
[20:47] bergie: * We can generate the "Midgard Welcome Site" using a  
simple PHP script
[20:47] bergie: * m-t moves to files
[20:47] bergie: s/files/elements generated by site wizard
[20:49] bergie: actually, now that I think of it, the style packages  
could be PEAR packages too, with custom role for importing the  
elements into DB (we could now keep images and CSS in "static" space)


Henri Bergius
Consultant Partner, Nemein
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