Nicola,

can you stop this Maven-bashing please?

In particular:
> install it indipendently, although I still recommend it since it reduces 

> the overhead that MAven gives (as small as it can become).

It's simply unnecessary, unprofessional and incorrect.

Nicola Ken Barozzi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 26/10/2002 12:24:21 AM:

> 
> Henri Yandell wrote:
> > 
> > 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. 
> 
> Yup.
> 
> > 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]
> 
> Errr, not that I know of (yet).
> I'll make sure we make on ASAP.
> 
> > It sounds easier to use than the xdocs already though :)
> 
> BTW, there is already a Maven plugin if you are
> interested, but it's out of date.
> It will make it possible for Maven users to use it without needing to 
> install it indipendently, although I still recommend it since it reduces 

> the overhead that MAven gives (as small as it can become).
> 
> Jeff Turner will update it ASAP next week maybe.
> 
> If you wanna help him out, it would be great :-)
> 
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