On Sat, 2008-08-23 at 17:59 +1000, David Crossley wrote:
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> 2) Use the head of Cocoon 2.1 branch: FOR-955
> 
> Some progress was made on that option a couple
> of years ago. Recently Thorsten and David have
> made excellent progress. See more below.
...
> Proposal
> --------
> 
> This proposal is to go with Option 2, i.e. use Cocoon-2.1 branch.
> 
> This will not preclude doing either Option 1 or
> Option 3 (or some other) at a later stage.
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> We have tested it on a new forrest seed in
> 'forrest run' mode for both skins and dispatcher.
> Also in 'forrest site' mode. Also the Forrest docs
> in $FORREST_HOME/site-author seems okay.

We need to get COCOON-2241 fixed since this issue is the key to get the
CLI working without the patch the CLI fails with NPE.

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> Please do more testing and also on your own projects.

I did with my current work project where I encountered before a heaps
size problem. It is working now much better.

> Please raise any concerns that you might have about
> going down this route.
> 
> After discussion settles and it seems that we have
> reached consensus, then we will probably hold a vote
> to confirm it.

I agree with the proposal.

salu2
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