Thorsten Scherler wrote:
On Tue, 2005-08-09 at 22:55 +0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Author: thorsten
Date: Tue Aug 9 15:54:59 2005
New Revision: 231130
URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewcvs?rev=231130&view=rev
Log:
Added new seed targets seed-basic and seed-sample.
That closes FOR-253. We should call a official vote that 'seed' is deprecated.
http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FOR-253
There are some more mails around that topic in the archive.
Here my +1 to deprecated the "seed" target and use "seed-sample"
instead.
-1
Thanks to Thorsten for creating these files, it's a great idea.
I am not keen on deprecating the seed target though. I would prefer that
seed created a true seed site since that is what our users are
accustomed to and it is how we currently document "forrest seed" (i.e.
less work in deprecating the target):
# Step 1: Do 'forrest seed' to populate the directory with template site
structure and contents.
# Step 2: Add content by editing docs in task-specific,
presentation-neutral XML.
Over the years it has grown to be a sample site. I would rather that
"forrest seed" did what it says in the docs and that we had other
targets for samples, business basic etc.
In other words, we change the behaviour of "forrest seed" to create the
seed-simple site that Thorsten has committed and we document "forrest
seed-sample" as a new command.
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Alternative
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We change the "seed" target to be an interactive target that provides a
menu of all available seed sites. This way the user can do "forrest
seed" and be presented with:
1 - seed-simple (basic site with minimal content, ideal for starting
your own site)
2 - seed-business (basic business template site, ideal for starting a
business site)
3 - seed-sample (a demonstration site that describes key functionality
within Forrest)
[Note] You can run any of these targets directly from the command line
with "forrest seed-TARGETNAME"
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I also agree with David that we need to stick to a single naming
convention. Looking at "forrest -projecthelp" I see that it is my stuff
that has broken the "standard". I have fixed that.
Ross
