--- "Jean T. Anderson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
The current setup at http://incubator.apache.org/derby/manuals/index.html
isn't optimal. 748 *.ihtml files get rendered into 748 *.html files,
Just a clarification
I'll address those issues in my reply to Jean's mail.
However, in your thread with Jean, you did say it might be possible to have the docs in xdocs/, yet tell Forrest not to build them each time. If that is possible, then perhaps we only need one instance? We can keep the dita source in xdocs, and switch a bit somewhere to say "Process the docs, we've made a change to them" or "Dont process the docs, they havent changed since the last time we built"?
Well this is a common feature request and it is something that we have talked about a fair bit. There are ways of doing it but most of them are pretty clunky.
However, in this case since we know all the docs that we *don't* want to process are DITA files I *think* we will simply be able to turn off the DITA plugin and catch the exceptions the Forrest throws because it can't find the file it needs.
Another alternative is forrest:views, however, we are only just starting to figure out how these may work and whilst this would be a great use case it is a little early to say it will work.
There is one other solution, which I will discuss in my reply to Jean. I *know* this one will work as we use it ourselves for our own docs at Forrest.
Ross
