On Wed, 2005-08-17 at 08:32 +0200, Nacho G. Mac Dowell wrote:
> robert burrell donkin wrote:
> 
> >
> >two good reasons: forrest produces nice multi-format documentation and
> >has good support for doc-book. 
> >
> >FYI soon, all ASF websites will be generated through (next generation)
> >forrest. site:deploy (and so on) will no longer be available so if
> >people are still happy with the documentation produce by forrest then it
> >might be better to use the plugin (if we can).
> >  
> >
> Apparently there is no plugin for forrest :-[
> 
> But it is quite easily implemented through maven.xml as shown in 
> http://forrest.apache.org/docs_0_70/howto/howto-forrest-from-maven.html
> 
> I don't know much about forrest but I was wondering why it hasn't turned 
> into a plugin. It seems quite simple... I'll ask in the maven list and 
> maybe give it a try

don't know for sure

(it is possible that there was an element of politics involved...)

> BTW, do you know if maven.apache.org is also going to be generated by 
> forrest?

everything at apache will be one day

(there's quite a lot of effort needed on forrest first to support the
additional input and output formats required)

- robert

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