write a lightweight deepamehta distribution-template

[Malte]

A "lightweight" deepamehta installation should meet the needs of possible deepamehta users who just want to explore and experiment with deepamehtas unique user interface, nothing else.

Therefore such a distro should ship, work and be:

• without the type-builder plugin
• without making a "login" prompt necessary on first contact to write stuff

Ideally there could be much more, to be shipped with such.

Danny, could you point me to a place where I can see how I can write such a template? I would be very interested in learning how to write own distribution templates since therewith you can free users of the need to manually install any plugins after dm-installation, if i see that right.

Would be great if you could shortly point me out some key things about your freshest devlopment in this area. Thanks a lot!

[Malte]

• restrict the available types in the "Search"-Menu, e.g. to those available in "Create"-Menu

[dgf]

Hi Malte,

I am very pleased about resonates to the individualized set of plugins and configuration

it would be nice to see more customized distributions

at the moment there are two in the wild
​https://github.com/dgf/poemspace-mailer
​https://github.com/jri/deepamehta/tree/master/modules/dm4-assemblies

basicly you need a bundled feature.xml that describes all dependencies, and a distribution module to preconfigure the logging, system and other specific configurations

[Malte]

Thanks dagnu for your support, this sounds very nice and I want to give it a try soon!

I just filed #512 as a support request.

[Malte]

As the DM4 BOX Renderer is now part of the standard distro there is an additional need to get this started.

[jri]

Should we close this ticket?

[jri]

In comment:2 dgf shows how you could build your own Karaf-based distro.
Use dm4-features as a start (see #711).

Concrete DM functionality should be addressed in dedicated tickets.