Hi Cliff, we are having a discussion on the Forrest dev mailing list about how to cope with plugins where our developers want to use third-party products from the http://people.apache.org/~cliffs/3party.html#category-x
Re: plugins with some excluded licenses http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=115192023200002 Message-ID: 44A8E7F1.1020508 () apache ! org Some background ... Forrest has its main core and then a "plugins" system to enable various extra optional functionality. We have a growing list of plugins that we manage in our SVN. When we make a release, we add the sources for all the plugins. The user can also use the plugin system to download plugins that are not held in the Forrest SVN, e.g. from their own development site. So far we have managed to avoid using Category X third-party products (e.g. supporting jars such as database connectivity) in any of our plugins. However it was bound to happen. Now we have a definite use case. I hope that you can help. I am stumped about the best way forward. -David
