Ross Gardler wrote: > Thorsten Scherler wrote: > > >The solution David has chosen you still can define your minimum > >configuration even if you just override one property. Besides he added a > >nice header that you can add any given property again by looking up the > >fresh-site file (we everything is pretty much described). > > You are mixing the two commits David made. One was to clear out > unnecessary stuff from plugins etc. I'm +1 for that. The other is the > one above, this is for the template sites. These are used by users as a > starting point and therefore extra documentation in there will reduce > the number of questions we get on the mailing lists. > > >Another way is to define a svn:ext. Meaning all template sites would > >keep the blown away properties to play around but we as project have to > >maintain only one (e.g. the one from fresh-site). > > +1 (for the seed sites only - I'm happy with the minimal stuff in > plugins etc. that are not used by users in the same way)
Okay, i will try to find another way to avoid the duplication. What i was trying to do was to make the "seed-sample" site the fully-documented one for all reference. I considered that the "basic" one should be basic, but Tim's httpd.conf analogy is good. I will put them back to "basic" and "business". I reckon that "benchmark" can be minimal. I also want to keep the "v3" minimal. The "v2" i have not touched because i presume that it will be entirely removed prior to the 0.8 release. To link the history of the discussion for the archives: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.text.xml.forrest.devel/18638 http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FOR-776 As mentioned there, Reinhard did some experimentation at Cocoon-2.2 (pre Daisy docs) that used svn:externals to maintain the forrest.properties and skinconf.xml etc. I will investigate and report back. I get the feeling that it only operates at directory level. The other thing that we discussed (need to find the thread) was to streamline these "seed" sites so that we can generate various seed sites, e.g. one that strips out the Apache licensing info. -David
