Noel J. Bergman wrote:
>>>I wonder why the Maven folks and Forrest folks don't get together, so
>>> that
>>>Maven can focus on all of the backend project management, and Forrest
>>> can
>>>focus on publishing the web content.
>>>
>>B'cos that'd destroy all the infighting, bitchin', sniping and spoil half
>>the fun.. ;-)
>
> I'm laughing, but also serious. Maven's primary focus is project
> management, not web content; and Forrest's primary focus is web content, not
> project management. They would make an great pairing. Since Nico is here
> talking about Forrest, and is one of the maintainers on Forrest, I'd really
> like to hear his thoughts.
Forrest does only documentation, and we will make a Forrest plugin to
Maven available as soon as we finish the current discussion on
finalizing the DTD.
So Maven and Forrest will work together, but this will not (fortunately)
stop Maven developers to maintain their Velocity based site creation system.
As for the build system, I find Maven slow and alpha.
Slow it is (remember to check beta5, notb4), and is based on a yet2be
released jakarta commons sandbox called Jelly, and Werkz, not Apache.
Some Turbine folks also had reservations on using Maven current beta for
the next release.
I have a similar project based on Ant, that works with the Gump
descriptors, called Centipede, on www.krysalis.org.
It integrates a forrest plugin, and has many more plugins.
It also downloads dependencies and is very easy to extend, since it uses
Ant 1.5.
We had plugins (called cents) long before Maven, and our system is used
on Jakarta POI jakarta.apache.org/poi and Forrest itself.
Currently we are in the process of making dependency-based compilation
work OOTB with the Gump descriptor, more on that soon :-)
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