Yeah, I'm open minded about Forrest and Maven, I'm looking for domain engineering tools (for work) just now, as well as considering James web-site, and I can see how Forrest and Gump fit my requirements for domain engineering tools, but as far as James website is concerned my only reqirements were..
1/ direct, unintrusive, replacement for anakia to build our existing site(although I've moved it to straight XSLT at the moment, so it doesnt depend on anything but ant right now) 2/ shallow learning curve and tidy results for lazy non-style-conscious site authors/maintainers. Maven also provides (as you'll see in the demo) some primitive metrics, by file and by commiter, and an auto generated changelog, all of which I liked. Forrest, correct me if I'm wrong, would provide better support for complex document sets, domain level management of sub-domain document sets no metrics and require greater initial effort. I cant find a "getting started" for Forrest, and to be honest I don't think James simple requirements merit the expenditure of much effort, just a simple route to a coherent generated style, co-ordinated with other jakarta sub-projects. d. > -----Original Message----- > From: Noel J. Bergman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 15 August 2002 19:59 > To: James Developers List > Subject: RE: Next question.. (was: Should we remove ant? ) > > > > > I wonder why the Maven folks and Forrest folks don't get together, so > that > > > Maven can focus on all of the backend project management, and Forrest > can > > > focus on publishing the web content. > > > B'cos that'd destroy all the infighting, bitchin', sniping and > spoil half > > the fun.. ;-) > > I'm laughing, but also serious. Maven's primary focus is project > management, not web content; and Forrest's primary focus is web > content, not > project management. They would make an great pairing. Since Nico is here > talking about Forrest, and is one of the maintainers on Forrest, > I'd really > like to hear his thoughts. > > --- Noel > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
