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 interested, but it's out of date.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 :-) > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- dIon Gillard, Multitask Consulting Work: http://www.multitask.com.au Developers: http://adslgateway.multitask.com.au/developers
