On Fri, 25 Oct 2002, Nicola Ken Barozzi wrote:

>
> Henri Yandell wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, 25 Oct 2002, Nicola Ken Barozzi wrote:
> >
> >>>As an aside,
> >>>just how easy is it to modify Forrest content?  I'd hope it is as easy
> >>>as anakia.
> >>
> >>Basically the same.
> >
> > But hopefully easier to setup. Having to checkout velocity or
> > jakarta-site2 just to build the xdocs in commons has always
> > irritated/confused me.
>
> Currently Forrest has to be downloaded and installed as Ant is.
> The fact that we don't yet have a release will mean getting it from CVS,
> but we'll cut one in a week or so.
>
> That means unpacking, setting FORREST_HOME and adding the bin dir to the
> path.
> And that has to be done only once for all projects. Bandwidth is not free...
>
> Anyway, suggestions on how you would want it to work are *highly*
> welcome, since we want it to be easy to use.

If it's intended to be run like ant/maven, then a jar I download and set
<PROJECT>_HOME is fine. As I can't download jars for license reasons I
except grabbing a zip and pulling the jar or structure out. Is there a
nightly build available? [I don't mind building from cvs-source, it's just
not the java-user way]

It sounds easier to use than the xdocs already though :)

Hen

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