Hi Boris,

Just for clarification. The Forrest system is mostly a superset of
what stylebook provides. The irritating part is the index file
organization has changed - otherwise it would simply be a perl script
to change the sb tag names to forrest tag names.

On Nov 6, 2007 12:00 PM, Boris Kolpackov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Sure. What I meant is we shouldn't make any hard dependencies between
> code releases and porting to Forrest until all the infrastructure-
> related work is done and the migration path is clear and worked out.
> This way, if the person with the expertise is suddenly unable to
> finish the work, we won't be stuck with something half-done and
> unable to move forward with the code base.

Hmm...

OK. So you want the new forrest site to be 3.0 specific?

> I propose we do it like this: do the initial port on the side and
> then, when it is clear that the new setup can support all our use
> cases go ahead with migrating the rest of documentation. While
> this effort is underway, we can continue making new releases with
> the old documentation system. If the initial effort fails for some
> reason, then we have the old way of doing things to fall back on.
>
> I've been updating Xerces-C++ documentation not long ago and have
> a good idea of the tricky parts. I can create a list of files that
> would be good to port to Forrest as an initial port.

all sounds reasonable to me. jas.

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