Hi all: 

I am going to upgrade the doc build to use Forrest 0.7 in the next couple of 
days.

Thought I would run the change by you all, and make sure there are no 
objections.

Two issues are motivating this upgrade: 
(1) Link checking works much better in Forrest 0.7
(2) Property overrides (in forrest.properties) are fixed in 0.7

But, on the whole, there are no huge structural changes associated with the 
upgrade.

Note: this change only applies to those folks who already have Forrest 0.6 
installed and are running the doc-related build targets, i.e., "build.dist", 
"build.dist.docs", etc.

The upgrade will consist of the following changes:

(1) Download Forrest 0.7 from: http://mirror.ipaska.net/apache/forrest/ and 
unzip the distribution on your machine.

(2) Set the FORREST_HOME variable on your machine:

FORREST_HOME=C:\apache\apache-forrest-0.7 (or wherever you unzipped the Forrest 
distribution)

(3) Add the following to your PATH:

FORREST_HOME\bin

That's it.

I will be making some associated content changes to the XML files, but you 
don't have to wait for those checkins to make the upgrade from 0.6 to 0.7. 

I will send out another email when I am ready to checkin.

-steve h.

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