On Wed, 2005-04-20 at 19:09 +0100, Ross Gardler wrote:
Thorsten Scherler wrote:
Sorry for the crosspost but it seems to be from interest for both lists. ;-)
Hello devs,
my customer wants to have forrest in lenya (or vice versa). :)
The question that pops into to my head is the compatibility between the cocoon versions used by lenya/forrest.
Lenya is officially supporting 2.1.6 (but 2.1.7 is working fine). Forrest is using 2.2-dev.
Will I run into problems because of that?
I don't know about that but...
What do both lists think how to overcome this problem?
I reckon I have to change the dir structure from either lenya or forrest to make the forrest project files editable within lenya. Which app would be best to "learn" the other site structure.
What do both projects think which one should become the main app (lenya or forrest)?
I looked into this some time back and decided that it was simply too much effort to separate the various components of Lenya to allow it to be cleanly integrated with Forrest (or vice-versa). At that time the Lenya community were trying to make their system more modular, so things may have changed. Furthermore, I am aware that you have a better understanding of the Lenya internals than I do so perhaps you could do what I was scared of attempting.
:) we just tried and it was looking pretty good till a certain point. We could just spend a day on it because the deadline of the project. ...but we will do it again in the next couple of months. :)
Sounds very similar to my own experience.
Instead I decided to use Daisy. I'm currently building a plugin to allow Daisy content to be included in a Forrest site. You can find the code in the whiteboard.
I will have a look to learn from you code maybe I can just change some things to make it work for lenya. ;-)
Well this is the second iteration of the plugin. I have a fully working version that is hacked together but I don't like many ways I have done things. So this version should be a big improvement. What would be great is if we can work out a best practice for this kind of integration. I would love to be able to do it for many different CMS systems, including a load of Wiki's.
Imagine the value/flexibility of a Wikipedia plugin, coupled with a Daisys plugin, coupled with a Lenya plugin (see my other reply with respect to which is the main app).
Ross
