On Sun, Oct 27, 2002 at 01:04:16AM +0200, Nicola Ken Barozzi wrote:
> Rodent of Unusual Size wrote:
> >
> >i tried it while i was waiting for my car to be inspected, but i
> >couldn't build it -- the cvs head has a dependency on being online and
> >able to reach krysalis.org.
>
> :-(
>
> Ok Forrest guys, I've had enough! ;-)
>
> It's the third time in an afternoon that I have recieved similar
> problems, and feature requests.
>
> We *must* ensure that these difficulties won't happen again, and
> remember that many new users we will have from now on don't usually
> work with or like Java (I'm not talkin about you Ken, it's the others
> that complained ;-)
>
> Jeff et all, from me you have all the support to:
>
> * remove what is left of the old Centipede inside Forrest
> * remove the need to download from an outer site
> * put all needed in CVS, put the latest Ant
I've done most of this on my local repository. The effects are:
- Directory structure and build.xml somewhat simpler.
- Forrest is buildable by typing 'ant' (to keep Dion happy).
- .. but for people without Ant, it's also buildable with
./build.{sh,bat}. An _unmodified_ but stripped-down Ant 1.6-dev is
kept in tools/ant/ for this purpose.
- The shbat distribution now includes the same stripped-down Ant.
Previously we required the user to have Ant installed to run Forrest.
Now Forrest requires only a JDK to run.
If anyone has objections, get them in now before lazy consensus kicks in.
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Other Exciting News from Some of the Forrest Team:
- Nicola has Jetty working. Faster-than-Anakia edit/view turnaround
times are now possible, if we could just get rid of the 'copy src/*
build/*' stage.
- Jeff spent today hacking Ant and finally got <xmlcatalog> support for
external OASIS catalogs working (hence Ant 1.6-dev mentioned above).
We'll soon have XML validation as part of the doc rendering process.
- Jeff has latest Cocoon ChainMetaModule working in Forrest. Having
cookie-remembered, user-selectable skins in live webapps is only an
XSP away.
--Jeff
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