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From: Nicola Ken Barozzi <nicolaken@apache.org>
Subject: Re: Why does forrest copy stuff to /webapp?
Date: Wed, 09 Jun 2004 19:17:45 +0200
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Juan Jose Pablos wrote:

> Nicola Ken Barozzi escribi�:
> 
>> Now forrest suddenly has started using the build/webapp dir as a base 
>> for forrest/run.
>>
>> Is this because of commit 20891?
> 
> yes, it is..
> 
>> Please, no more copying around! If we need to put indexes or logs in 
>> the build dir, it's ok, but not the whole webapp! :-/
> 
> Nicola. It is not the whole webapp. Just src/core/context I will look 
> for a way to reduce this to the minimum.

Shucks, it should not be to a minimum, it should simply not be there... 
Why does it have to be like this? Maybe I can help you remove this.

I would have appreciated though that you had told us about this change, 
as it's a regression, and the trunk should never have deliberate 
regressions.

> We should be aware of the "Filesystem Hierarchy Standard"[1] as well so 
> we make forrest more easy to migrate to something like debian.
> 
> [1] http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html

I don't think it's relevant for us, nor important, as Java is OS agnostic.

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Nicola Ken Barozzi                   nicolaken@apache.org
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