Hi All,
Hope all is going well.
Just wanted to send in an update regarding the Forrest 0.6 packaging.
I've spent most of today updating the package however there's a defect in the bundled version of Cocoon inside Forrest 0.6 that prevents it from working in a multi-user environment, which is where forrest is currently installed (/usr/share/forrest/....).
This defect has been fixed in newer versions of Cocoon and included in SVN Forrest, but there's no official release of Forrest available just yet that includes this fix.
To make matters worse it doesn't seem to be possible to recreate the cocoon.jar that's bundled with Forrest 0.6 to backport the patch to fix the problem. Checking out the Cocoon version thats reflected by the date in the name of the cocoon jar (20040902) doesn't yield a jar file that allows Forrest to compile. :(
The Forrest team have been talking about releasing Forrest 0.7 that includes further modifications upon 0.6 such as plugins, etc, so my current feeling is to leave the Forrest 0.5 package in Debian, until 0.7, which will include the latest Cocoon jar, with the required fix.
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=forrest-dev&m=110905218718759&w=2
There's a workaround to the actual issue at hand (Cocoon checks for read/write access to the /usr/share/forrest/src/core/context directory which naturally fails) so what I can do if you're interested is make the current 0.6 packages available on my people.debian.org website (since the workaround is a policy violation) with a description of what you need to do to get it working in your environment.
When 0.7 is released I'll then proceed with the packaging and upload it into Debian proper.
I hope this is ok with you guys?
Cheers,
Marcus
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