A few days ago it was proposed that we merge the plugins branch with
trunk. I resisted at the time because there were a few things I wanted
to do in the branch first. However, these are now done. The plugins
system now works in a fully automated fashion and I am confident it does
not break backward compatibility (although further testers are always
welcome).
At present there is no core functionality removed from trunk and placed
in a plugin. Instead I have created two new plugins:
IMSManifest - replaces site.xml and tabs.xml with an IMSManifest file.
This is a complex structure not suitable for editing by hand, but there
is a GUI editor at http://www.reload.ac.uk and my own Burrokeet project
is developing an Eclipse based editing framework for this structure.
This plugin also enables content to be included in a site from some
other site stored in a repository, however, this functionality is very
much alpha (the code even has some hard coded path information in it at
present - not good!)
feeder - very simple start to including syndicated content in a Forrest
site. At present it will take an RSS2.0 feed and crate an XDOC.
The code for both of these can be donated to Forrest (we will need to
start a new module I think, but that is for a different thread).
So, shall I merge the branch at this time?
I think the process is if I don't get any -1's in 36 hours I can go
ahead, is that right?
Ross
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