Andrew C. Oliver wrote: > I'd also like to get a central forrest generator set up. > I had thought daedalus was the proper > place to do that, but perhaps cvs.apache.org is. > > I can hack forrest to provide this.. But What I need is:
Steady on, Andy. I can understand you being excited by the possibilities, but steady on. We have been developing solutions to these very issues on forrest-dev and we have mechanisms to cope with such infrastructure realities. Remember, that Apache is not the only place to have restricted facilities - many of our own private and business websites do too, e.g. lack of Java, heavy load, restricted crontab, ... So we have had the use-case for a long time. Forrest has mechanisms to deal with it. For example forrestbot can draw content from remote CVS, generate website, and publish the result onto another machine. The curliest issue is the last stage. We can already do 'scp'. A future method could be 'rsync put over ssh'. In the meantime, please follow the method outlined at my homepage cvs.apache.org/~crossley/publish.html Andy, thanks for extending the scope of this thread - we definitely do need to discuss these issues. However, please familiarise with Forrest and build upon the solutions that we have. We have already ruled out the dynamic generation on current daedalus and icarus machines. Hence the evolution of forrestbot. --David
