Jeff , Might be a good idea to do it inside the Centipede project Nicola Ken Barozzi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> is the fellow who started it. See what he thinks.
- Paul >On Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 01:34:15AM +1100, Peter Donald wrote: > >>On Thu, 21 Mar 2002 20:39, Jeff Turner wrote: >> >>>2. Everyone who feels that the Cocoon-based system is nonetheless cool >>>and will kick butt in the long term, go along to to Nicola Ken's >>>Krysalis project (used in Jakarta POI, xml-forrest), and let's get it to >>>a state where it's usable in Avalon. >>> >>>http://www.krysalis.org/centipede/index.html >>> >>That looks like a kool idea. Is centipede just a cutdown cocoon package that >>is presetup? >> > >Sortof.. It's a project template. A generalised build.xml file (based on >Cocoon's) and a Cocoon-based document generation system. Nicely done >too.. very modular. The included Cocoon is 3.6mb, and has not been cut >down much. > >It would be kinda nice to "outsource" the build system development. Make >build system improvements part of another project, not Avalon. Better >SoC :) > >A possible course of action: > > 1. We take this Centipede project template, and add a module for > building docs with Anakia or <style>. > 2. Try using it to build Excalibur. If that works, propose that we adopt > it here. > 3. Then continue to develop Centipede's Cocoon-based doc module until > it's lean and fast. > 4. Once it's good enough, switch Excalibur from the Anakia module to > Cocoon module. > >Sound reasonable? If so, I'll volunteer and start on 1. > > >--Jeff > >>-- >>Cheers, >> >>Pete >> >>*--------------------------------* >>| Every rule has an exception, | >>| except the rule of exceptions. | >>*--------------------------------* >> > >-- >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]>
